Business Planning Clause Samples
The Business Planning clause outlines the requirements and procedures for the parties to collaboratively develop, review, and update business plans related to their agreement. Typically, this clause specifies the frequency of planning meetings, the content and format of business plans, and the responsibilities of each party in contributing to the planning process. By establishing a structured approach to business planning, the clause ensures alignment of goals, facilitates ongoing communication, and helps prevent misunderstandings about expectations and deliverables.
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Business Planning. The Business Plan shall include the following elements:
i. a statement of Dealer's legal and financial structure, including capitalization, line of credit and equity ownership;
ii. the sales, service, customer relations, marketing and other standards on which Dealer's performance will be evaluated, which standards Dealer acknowledges and agrees will be higher than those established for Authorized Nissan Dealers that are not responsible for a CMO;
iii. a detailed organizational structure and staffing plans, including the number of certified sales, service and parts managers, sales personnel, and technicians that shall be provided for the East Bay CMO;
iv. specific plans for maximizing owner loyalty and customer satisfaction, including hours of operation and customer convenience systems;
v. advertising, merchandising, marketing and community relations plans;
vi. successorship, including the identity of the proposed successors to Dealer, Dealer Principal and/or Executive Manager; and
vii. other standards or plans as agreed by Nissan, FAA and Dealer.
Business Planning. 15.1. Providers should ensure they submit timely and accurate information, including, but not limited to, headcount data, census data, parental declarations and invoices. Failure to do so may result in inaccurate, delayed, or suspended funding. 7 For schools inspected by the Independent Schools Inspectorate the relevant inspection judgement is “sound”.
15.2. Providers should maintain accurate financial and non-financial records relating to entitlement places and should give the Local Authority access on reasonable notice to all financial and non-financial records relating to entitlement places funded under the provider agreement, subject to confidentiality restrictions.
15.3. Providers must complete and submit headcount and other necessary data returns via the provider portal. Providers may only claim for the care they provide (or intend to provide when completing the forecast task).
15.4. Each provider must register one or more staff members to use the provider portal by completing and returning a Provider Portal Access Form for each user. Users must activate their account once it has been registered as most communications regarding the entitlements are sent via the provider portal.
15.5. A Provider Portal User Guide is available on the Bracknell Forest Council website.
15.6. Login details must not be shared between users, and it is the user’s responsibility to keep their login details secure.
15.7. Autocomplete options that remember passwords can cause issues when changing passwords and should not be used.
15.8. If a provider portal user leaves the setting or changes roles, the setting must contact the Early Years Team to remove the user’s access from the system.
15.9. If the device you use to access the portal (laptop, tablet, mobile phone etc.) is lost or stolen you must contact the Early Years Team immediately so that your password can be reset. See page 30 for contact details.
15.10. Bracknell Forest Council will publish a funding timetable (schedule of dates) in the spring term of each year setting out when tasks on the portal will open and close and the date payments will be processed.
15.11. Providers should use the Self Update section of the provider portal to keep their setting details up to date. Providers’ details must be up to date on headcount day of the Spring term, as these details will be used in the annual Early Years Census.
15.12. The Early Years Census takes place each January. Bracknell Forest Council provides data to the DfE on all ...
Business Planning. 11.1 The following documentation is required from providers to facilitate the delivery of free entitlements. The timetable is shown in the table below: Documentation Required How Often Documentation is Required When Documentation is Required
11.2 Local Authorities are required by legislation to secure sufficient childcare so far as reasonably practicable, for working parents, or parents who are studying or training for employment for children aged 0-14 years (or up to 18 years for disabled children). Providers are therefore required to complete a Childcare Sufficiency return as outlined in the table above in order for the local authority to fulfil this duty.
11.3 The census data collection (January) from providers is a statutory requirement through regulations under section 99 of the Childcare Act 2006 and The Education (Provision of Information about Young Children) (England) Regulations 2009. The content of the data collection will be determined by the Department of Education census requirements document.
11.4 All providers of early year’s education are required to engage in Together for Children’s termly headcount task via the provider portal in order to be funded for those children eligible to access the early year’s free entitlement.
11.5 Failure to supply any of the information within the timescales set may result in inaccurate, delayed or suspended funding.
11.6 Providers should maintain accurate financial and non-financial records relating to free entitlement places e.g. registers, patterns of attendance, signed parental declarations and should give the Together for Children access with reasonable notice to all financial and non-financial records relating to free entitlement places funded under the provider agreement, subject to confidentiality restrictions.
11.7 The following charges will apply to any provider including childminders who provide late or incomplete information leading to additional administration in the processing of free entitlements:
11.8 Providers (and any of their employees in any way involved in the provision of the childcare services) shall comply with all the relevant requirements of the Data Protection Act 1998 and GDPR 2018.
11.9 Information set out or referred to in this agreement shall be considered strictly private and confidential, and providers shall not (and shall ensure that its employees do not) disclose or hand over any such information or documents to any third party, without the prior written consent of Together ...
Business Planning. During the term of this Agreement, Recipient shall, within a reasonable period of time after such plans are available, provide Service Provider with a detailed plan identifying any changes in Recipient's business that may affect the Services or result in additional capacity being required in order for Service Provider to provide the Services to Recipient. Recipient's business plan provided to Service Provider pursuant to this Section 4.4 shall be deemed confidential information of Recipient.
Business Planning. During the Initial Term and, if any, the Extended Term, Recipient shall, within a reasonable period of time after such plans are available, provide Service Provider with a detailed plan identifying any changes in Recipient's business that may affect the Services or result in additional capacity being required in order for Service Provider to provide the Services to Recipient. Recipient's business plan provided to Service Provider pursuant to this Section 4.05 shall be deemed confidential information of Recipient.
Business Planning. The Local Authority will provide and maintain an online Provider Portal for the sole purpose of enabling Providers to submit, safely and securely, child and parent details relating to all free entitlements and EYPP. Providers must adhere to all security procedures including any new or revised password policy.
Business Planning. 11.1 The provider should ensure they submit timely and accurate information to the local authority, including, but not limited to, claims and census data. Failure to do so may result in inaccurate, delayed, or suspended funding.
11.2 SEND Support Funding applications are reviewed half-termly by the funding panel following submission. The provider should ensure applications are submitted before the deadline date advertised on Dorset Nexus. Failure to do this may result in payment being withheld. The local authority reserves the right to audit funding claims and the actions taken to support the child. All applications require digital consent from the parent/carer before approval.
11.3 To cover the additional administration costs involved in processing late or amended claims providers may, dependent on circumstances, be subject to an administrative charge of £50 for providing late or incomplete information. These charges will be deducted from the payment in respect of the late or amended claims. Where this is not possible the charges will be deducted from the first subsequent claim from which it is possible to make a deduction.
11.4 The provider should maintain accurate financial and non-financial records relating to free entitlement places and should give the local authority access on reasonable notice to all these records relating to free entitlement places funded under the provider agreement, subject to confidentiality restrictions.
11.5 The Synergy Online portal system is used by providers to make their termly claims for funding. The local authority will email all providers in advance of the portal opening each term and will remind providers shortly before any funding claim is due. Guidance on the deadlines and the number of weeks and hours applicable for each term is available on the early education funding page.
11.6 Providers must inform the local authority using the ‘adjustments module’ within Synergy Online about any child who joins, leaves, increases or decreases their claim after the headcount date and use the module to claim additional funding or refund any overpayment.
11.7 If a parent claims EEF at more than one provider, it is their choice to decide the number of hours claimed at each provider up to the maximum entitlement. Parents are required to complete a parental agreement form establishing a contract with the provider, confirming the hours to be claimed for. It is the providers responsibility to ensure these are completed by parents and re...
Business Planning. Local Authority
Business Planning. 13.1 Early education and childcare providers are paid monthly based on the participation of eligible children at the provisions who have signed this agreement. Details of the payment schedule will be published to each provider by Education Finance.
13.2 In order to ensure a timely payment process, the Council requires all providers to submit data and documents, where applicable, as per the prescribed submission dates published in the Provider Guide, including but not limited to:
13.3 In order to ensure accuracy of the early education and childcare provider monthly payments, early education and childcare provides are required to: at least annually, but not more than termly, submit a budget calculator to support the preparation of provider budgets and confirm average monthly early education and childcare payments based on the estimation of hours as confirmed by the Provider for two, three and four year old funding claims. ensure they make on times and accurate data submissions as required by the Council as outlined in the Provider Guide.
13.4 Education Finance will confirm the arrangements for submission of the budget calculator and, where applicable, any other requirements for individual providers to submit additional budget calculators during the course of the financial year to account for any change of circumstance for the Provider.
13.5 In March prior to the start of each new financial year, the budget calculator will be used to baseline the early education and childcare funding providers will receive and the corresponding monthly payment schedule and indicative payment dates.
13.6 Providers are required to submit child level data, at least once per term as applicable, for eligible children as follows: 1st claim census of child level funding data for children at the start of term that the provider wishes to make a funding claim for including the data submissions as applicable for. Early Years Pupil Premium (EYPP) and/or the /Disability Access Fund (DAF) Second Census Funding Transfer Claims (Compulsory once per term)
13.7 Providers are required to submit child level data, at least once per term as applicable, for eligible children as follows: 2nd claim census of child level census data for children who join the provision, increase hours, decrease hours or leave the provision after the closure of the 1st term census claim. Including the data submissions as applicable for late claims for the term. Early Years Pupil Premium (EYPP) and or/the Dis...
Business Planning. 14.1 To operate its business effectively, the BFI should produce management planning and information documents covering at least three financial years ahead. These may take the form of strategic or corporate plans (for three years ahead), and should include a business plan (one year ahead). The first year of the planning document can include the business plan incorporated as a single document.
14.2 The Department should be sent copies of each of the completed planning documents. These plans should be made available to the public, via the internet if possible.
14.3 The business plan should include a forecast of income and expenditure suitably classified by activity and key objectives, taking account of guidance on resource assumptions and policies provided by the Department at the beginning of the planning round. These forecasts should represent the BFI’s best estimate of its available income, including any grant or grant in aid or any other funding within the BFI.