Common use of Flexibility Clause in Contracts

Flexibility. 6.1 Providers should offer parents their funded entitlement: • Up to 15 or 30* hours a week for 38 weeks a year which equates to 570 or 1140* hours a year if stretched and offered all year round. *(for three and four-year-olds eligible for 30 hours extended entitlement). 6.2 SCC encourages providers to offer flexible packages of funded entitlement, subject to the following: • No session to be longer than 10 hours • No minimum session length (subject to requirements of registration on the Ofsted Early Years Register) • Not before 6am or after 8pm • A maximum of two sites in a single day 6.3 Providers should be aware that funded entitlement places can be delivered: • For up to 52 weeks of the year • Outside of maintained school term times • At weekends 6.4 Providers should ensure that children are able to take up their funded hours in continuous blocks and avoid artificial breaks being created throughout the day, for example over the lunch period. 6.5 The Provider should work with SCC and share information about the times and periods at which they are able to offer funded hours to support SCC to secure sufficient stretched and flexible places to meet parental demand in Surrey. The Provider should also publish their admissions criteria and ensure clear and transparent information about their offer and admissions criteria is available to parents at the point the child first accesses provision at their setting (through publicity materials, website). 6.6 Providers can define the maximum number of funded hours that they will offer in a session or day, but this information must be made clear to parents within the provider’s charging policy and website where applicable. 6.7 Parents must be asked to sign confirming that they have read and understood the arrangements. Not all providers will be able to offer fully flexible places, but providers should work with parents to ensure that as far as possible the pattern of hours is convenient for parents’ working hours. 6.8 Providers should give parents and carers a reasonable notice period where a change in timings of sessions or patterns of attendance is required. For example, if a nursery has changed ownership and the model of delivery of funded hours has been changed for pre-existing families. 6.9 Parents may choose to access their funded entitlement at more than one provider or on more than one site, but at no more than two sites in one day. 6.10 Parents must complete a SCC Declaration Form 2020 each funded period with every provider that they intend to take their funded hours with, giving them consent for the provider to claim the funding on the parent’s behalf. Where the parent has not completed and signed the SCC Declaration Form 2020 upon commencement of taking their funded place at a provider, SCC reserves the right to reclaim funding paid for said child. 6.11 The SCC Declaration will be utilised as evidence in assessing where a possible duplicate, fraudulent or an over claim has been made. Parents and carers should be made aware of the implications of submitting duplicate claims, fraudulent claims and over claiming funded hours as part of your charging policy. Partnerships will be supported by SCC between: • SCC and providers i.e.: maintained nurseries & schools, Early Years PVI Providers and childminders • Providers working with other Providers, • Providers and Parents, carers • SCC and Parents, carers SCC promotes partnership working between different types of providers to offer flexible provision. 7.1 The Provider should work in partnership with parents, carers and other providers to improve provision and outcomes for children in their setting. An interactive toolkit has been developed by the Family and Childcare Trust, to help providers; set up or join a partnership, tackle the challenges joint working can bring and explore different ways of responding to the extended funded entitlement through a partnership approach and maximise the benefits of working together. You can find out further information at: xxx.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx/xxxx-00-xxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxx The Provider should discuss and work closely with parents, carers, to agree how a child’s overall needs will be met in practice when their funded entitlement is split across different providers, such as at a maintained school and childminder. 7.2 Attending more than one Provider 7.2.1 Attending term time settings only: • A child can attend just term-time settings, but the total claim must not be more than 15 hours or 30 hours a week (if eligible for the extended entitlement). If the child attends through the holidays, the maximum number of hours each week will be less. • Parents, carers, must make it clear on the Declaration Form before the beginning of each funded period where they want to claim the funded hours. Priority will be given to the setting who submits their information first. 7.2.2 Child attending stretched and term time providers: • Where the stretched funding Provider submits their claim first, only the weekly stretched hours balance will be available for the term time setting to claim. • Where the term time only Provider submits their claim first, there will only be a balance of hours for the stretched funding Provider to claim, which means that the hours may “run out” before the end of the funded period. The Provider will need to charge the parent, carer, for any hours that are not funded. • It might be helpful for both settings to agree to work with the Funded Early Education Team to maximise funding for each provider. • A Parent, carer, may choose to pay for all of their child’s care at your setting if they are using all of their funded hours at another setting. • If a child goes to both your setting and a maintained nursery class or school, you will only be able to claim for the funded hours that the parent, carer is not using at the maintained nursery class or school.

Flexibility. 6.1 Providers Children are able to take up their full entitlement to early education at times that best support their learning and development, and at times which fit with the needs of parents to enable them to work or increase their hours of work if they wish to do so. 5.1. Provision must be offered within the national parameters on flexibility as set out in Section A2 of the Early Education and Childcare Statutory Guidance for Local Authorities. 5.2. The provider should work with the LA and share information about the times and periods at which they are able to offer parents their funded entitlement: • Up entitlements, to 15 or 30* hours a week for 38 weeks a year which equates support the LA to 570 or 1140* hours a year if secure sufficient stretched and offered all year roundflexible places to meet parental demand. *(for three The provider must make information about their offer and four-year-olds eligible for 30 hours extended entitlement)admissions criteria available to parents at the point the child first accesses provision at their setting. 6.2 SCC encourages providers 5.3. Providers are not expected to offer agree to all flexible packages requests from every individual parent. It is understood that changes to patterns of funded entitlement, subject delivery to the following: • No session more flexible provision will need to be longer than 10 hours • No minimum session length (subject sustainable, and therefore demanded by a number of parents to requirements of registration on be financially viable. 5.4. Evidence shows that continuous provision is in the Ofsted Early Years Register) • Not before 6am or after 8pm • A maximum of two sites in a single day 6.3 Providers should be aware that funded entitlement places can be delivered: • For up to 52 weeks best interests of the year • Outside of maintained school term times • At weekends 6.4 Providers child. Where it is reasonably practicable LAs should ensure that children are able to take up their funded hours in continuous blocks and avoid artificial breaks being created throughout the day, for example over the lunch period. 6.5 5.5. There is no requirement that providers must be open for at least 38 weeks of the year, or that providers must offer 30 hours in order to receive funding to deliver funded places. 5.6. Where multiple providers are being accessed, parents should inform each provider of which is the main provider and the total hours claimed at each provision, ensuring that in no circumstance does a weekly claim exceed 15hrs a week for eligible 2 year olds and universal 3 and 4 year olds, or 30hrs a week for eligible extended entitlement 3 and 4 year olds (a maximum of 570hrs, or 1140hrs a year). The Provider Parent/Carer Declaration form should work detail providers and hours. If, during the termly headcount process, hours are found to exceed the maximum allowance each provider will be informed and must discuss with SCC and share information about the times and periods at which they are able to offer parent how funded hours are to support SCC to secure sufficient stretched and flexible places to meet parental demand in Surreybe distributed. The Provider should also publish parent will be liable to their admissions criteria and ensure clear and transparent information about their offer and admissions criteria is available to parents at provider for any hours claimed over the point the child first accesses provision at their setting (through publicity materials, website)maximum allowance. 6.6 Providers can define the maximum number of funded hours that they will offer in 5.7. If a session or dayprovider chooses to be closed on a bank holiday, but this information must be made clear to parents within the provider’s charging policy and website where applicable. 6.7 Parents must be asked to sign confirming that they have read and understood the arrangements. Not all providers will parent/carers should be able to offer fully flexible placesrequest movement of any lost early education hours to another point in the week/funding period, but providers should work with parents within the operational capacity of the provider. Providers are encouraged to ensure that as far as possible the pattern of hours is convenient for parents’ working hoursaccommodate these requests where possible. 6.8 5.8. Providers should give parents and carers a reasonable notice period where a change in timings of sessions or patterns of attendance is required. For example, if a nursery has changed ownership and the model of delivery of can choose not to deliver funded hours has been changed for pre-existing familiesplaces. 6.9 Parents may choose to access their funded entitlement at more than one provider or on more than one site, but at no more than two sites in one day. 6.10 Parents must complete a SCC Declaration Form 2020 each funded period with every provider that they intend to take their funded hours with, giving them consent for the provider to claim the funding on the parent’s behalf. Where the parent has not completed and signed the SCC Declaration Form 2020 upon commencement of taking their funded place at a provider, SCC reserves the right to reclaim funding paid for said child. 6.11 The SCC Declaration will be utilised as evidence in assessing where a possible duplicate, fraudulent or an over claim has been made. Parents and carers should be made aware of the implications of submitting duplicate claims, fraudulent claims and over claiming funded hours as part of your charging policy. Partnerships will be supported by SCC between: • SCC and providers i.e.: maintained nurseries & schools, Early Years PVI Providers and childminders • Providers working with other Providers, • Providers and Parents, carers • SCC and Parents, carers SCC promotes partnership working between different types of providers to offer flexible provision. 7.1 The Provider should work in partnership with parents, carers and other providers to improve provision and outcomes for children in their setting. An interactive toolkit has been developed by the Family and Childcare Trust, to help providers; set up or join a partnership, tackle the challenges joint working can bring and explore different ways of responding to the extended funded entitlement through a partnership approach and maximise the benefits of working together. You can find out further information at: xxx.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx/xxxx-00-xxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxx The Provider should discuss and work closely with parents, carers, to agree how a child’s overall needs will be met in practice when their funded entitlement is split across different providers, such as at a maintained school and childminder. 7.2 Attending more than one Provider 7.2.1 Attending term time settings only: • A child can attend just term-time settings, but the total claim must not be more than 15 hours or 30 hours a week (if eligible for the extended entitlement). If the child attends through the holidays, the maximum number of hours each week will be less. • Parents, carers, must make it clear on the Declaration Form before the beginning of each funded period where they want to claim the funded hours. Priority will be given to the setting who submits their information first. 7.2.2 Child attending stretched and term time providers: • Where the stretched funding Provider submits their claim first, only the weekly stretched hours balance will be available for the term time setting to claim. • Where the term time only Provider submits their claim first, there will only be a balance of hours for the stretched funding Provider to claim, which means that the hours may “run out” before the end of the funded period. The Provider will need to charge the parent, carer, for any hours that are not funded. • It might be helpful for both settings to agree to work with the Funded Early Education Team to maximise funding for each provider. • A Parent, carer, may choose to pay for all of their child’s care at your setting if they are using all of their funded hours at another setting. • If a child goes to both your setting and a maintained nursery class or school, you will only be able to claim for the funded hours that the parent, carer is not using at the maintained nursery class or school.

Flexibility. 6.1 ‌ 10.1. Providers should work with the Local Authority and share information about the times and periods at which they are able to offer parents their funded entitlement: • Up entitlements to 15 or 30* hours a week for 38 weeks a year which equates support the Local Authority to 570 or 1140* hours a year if secure sufficient stretched and offered all year round. *(for three and four-year-olds eligible for 30 hours extended entitlement)flexible places to meet parental demand in the Local Authority. 6.2 SCC encourages providers to offer flexible packages of funded entitlement, subject to the following: • No session to be longer than 10 hours • No minimum session length (subject to requirements of registration on the Ofsted Early Years Register) • Not before 6am or after 8pm • A maximum of two sites in a single day 6.3 10.2. Providers should be aware make information about their offer and admissions criteria available to parents at the point the child first accesses provision at their setting. 10.3. Evidence shows that funded entitlement places can be delivered: • For up to 52 weeks continuous provision is in the best interests of the year • Outside of maintained school term times • At weekends 6.4 Providers child. Where it is reasonably practicable providers should ensure that children are able to take up their funded hours in continuous blocks and avoid artificial breaks being created throughout the day, for example over the lunch period. 6.5 The Provider should work with SCC and share information about the times and periods at which they are able 10.4. Bracknell Forest Council is committed to supporting providers to offer funded hours to support SCC to secure sufficient stretched and flexible places to meet parental demand in Surrey. The Provider should also publish their admissions criteria need and ensure clear and transparent information about their offer and admissions criteria is available to parents at the point the child first accesses provision at their setting (through publicity materials, website). 6.6 Providers can define the maximum number of funded hours that they will offer in a session or day, but this information must be made clear to parents within the provider’s charging policy and website where applicable. 6.7 Parents must be asked to sign confirming that they have read and understood the arrangements. Not all providers will be able to offer fully flexible places, but providers should work with parents to ensure that as far as possible the pattern of hours is convenient for parents’ working hours. 6.8 Providers should give parents and carers a reasonable notice period where a change in timings of sessions or patterns of attendance is required. For example, if a nursery has changed ownership and the model of delivery of funded hours has been changed for pre-existing families. 6.9 Parents may choose to access their funded entitlement at more than one provider or on more than one site, but at no more than two sites in one day. 6.10 Parents must complete a SCC Declaration Form 2020 each funded period with every provider that they intend to take their funded hours with, giving them consent for the provider to claim the funding on the parent’s behalf. Where the parent has not completed and signed the SCC Declaration Form 2020 upon commencement of taking their funded place at a provider, SCC reserves the right to reclaim funding paid for said child. 6.11 The SCC Declaration will be utilised as evidence in assessing where a possible duplicate, fraudulent or an over claim has been made. Parents and carers should be made aware of the implications of submitting duplicate claims, fraudulent claims and over claiming funded hours as part of your charging policy. Partnerships will be supported by SCC between: • SCC and providers i.e.: maintained nurseries & schools, Early Years PVI Providers and childminders • Providers working with other Providers, • Providers and Parents, carers • SCC and Parents, carers SCC promotes partnership working between different types of providers to offer flexible provision. 7.1 The Provider should work in partnership with parents, carers and other providers to improve provision and outcomes for children in their settingachieve this. An interactive toolkit has been developed by Providers are encouraged to offer flexible packages of places, within the Family and Childcare Trust, to help providers; set up or join a partnership, tackle the challenges joint working can bring and explore different ways of responding following parameters: • no session longer than 10 hours • no minimum session length (subject to the extended funded entitlement through requirements of registration on the Ofsted Early Years Register) • not before 6.00am or after 8.00pm • a partnership approach and maximise maximum of two sites in a single day • up to 52 weeks of the benefits of working together. You can find out further information at: xxx.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx/xxxx-00-xxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxx The Provider should discuss and work closely with parents, carers, to agree how a year if the parent is stretching their child’s overall needs will entitlement • can be met in practice when their funded entitlement is split across different providers, such as at a outside of maintained school and childminderterm times • can include weekends 10.5. Subject to the standards set out in 10.4, there is no requirement for entitlement places to be taken on, or delivered on, particular days of the week or at particular times of the day. 7.2 Attending 10.6. If parents choose to take their entitlement with more than one Providerprovider, all parties have a duty to ensure there is a system in place to ensure continuity of care and that regular liaison between providers takes place. 7.2.1 Attending 10.7. Where a child attends 2 or more settings per week, it is up to the parent to decide the distribution of hours between the settings. The distribution of hours must be recorded on the Parent Declaration Form (PDF). Each provider will claim funding according to the distribution of hours recorded on the PDF. 10.8. The situation may arise where a child attends one provider term time settings only: • A child can attend just term-time settings, but the total claim must not be only and a second provider on a stretched offer over more than 38 weeks. Providers should check the funded hours claimed across both providers to ensure that the child is receiving a maximum of 15 hours or 30 funded hours a week and a maximum of 570 hours a year (if eligible or 1140 hours for children accessing the extended 30 hours entitlement). 10.9. If There is no requirement for providers to be open for 38 weeks of the child attends through year or to offer all the holidaysentitlements to receive funding to deliver entitlement places. However, the maximum number of hours each week will be less. • Parents, carers, providers must make it clear on the Declaration Form before the beginning of each funded period where they want to claim the funded hours. Priority will be given parents, prior to the setting who submits child taking up their information firstplace, where their business model restricts access to the full entitlement. 7.2.2 Child attending stretched and term time providers: • Where the stretched funding Provider submits their claim first, only the weekly stretched hours balance will be available for the term time setting to claim. • Where the term time only Provider submits their claim first, there will only be a balance of hours for the stretched funding Provider to claim, which means that the hours may “run out” before the end of the funded period. The Provider will need to charge the parent, carer, for any hours that are not funded. • It might be helpful for both settings to agree to work with the Funded Early Education Team to maximise funding for each provider. • A Parent, carer, may choose to pay for all of their child’s care at your setting if they are using all of their funded hours at another setting. • If a child goes to both your setting and a maintained nursery class or school, you will only be able to claim for the funded hours that the parent, carer is not using at the maintained nursery class or school.

Flexibility. 6.1 Providers should offer parents their funded entitlement: • Up to 15 or 30* hours a week for 38 weeks a year which equates to 570 or 1140* hours a year if stretched and offered all year round. *(for three and four-year-olds eligible for 30 hours extended entitlement). 6.2 SCC encourages providers to offer flexible packages of funded entitlement, subject to the following: • No session to be longer than 10 hours • No minimum session length (subject to requirements of registration on the Ofsted Early Years Register) • Not before 6am or after 8pm • A maximum of two sites in a single day 6.3 Providers should be aware that funded entitlement places can be delivered: • For up to 52 weeks of the year • Outside of maintained school term times • At weekends 6.4 Providers should ensure that children are able to take up their funded hours in continuous blocks and avoid artificial breaks being created throughout the day, for example over the lunch period. 6.5 The Provider provider should work with SCC and share information about the times and periods at which they are able to offer funded hours to support SCC to secure sufficient stretched and flexible places to meet parental demand in Surrey. The Provider provider should also publish their admissions criteria and ensure clear and transparent information about their offer and admissions criteria is available to parents at the point the child first accesses provision at their setting (through publicity materials, website). 6.6 Providers can define the maximum number of funded hours that they will offer in a session or day, but this information must be made clear to parents within the provider’s charging policy and website where applicable. 6.7 Parents must be asked to sign confirming that they have read and understood the arrangements. Not all providers will be able to offer fully flexible places, but providers should work with parents to ensure that as far as possible the pattern of hours is convenient for parents’ working hours. 6.8 6.7 Providers should give parents and carers a reasonable notice period where a change in timings of sessions or patterns of attendance is required. For example, if a nursery has changed ownership and the model of delivery of funded hours has been changed for pre-existing families. 6.9 6.8 Parents may choose to access their funded entitlement at more than one provider or on more than one site, but at no more than two sites in one day. 6.10 6.9 Parents must complete a SCC Declaration Form 2020 2021 each funded period with every provider that they intend to take their funded hours with, giving them consent for the provider to claim the funding on the parent’s behalf. Where the parent has not completed and signed the SCC Declaration Form 2020 2021 upon commencement of taking their funded place at a provider, SCC reserves the right to reclaim funding paid for said child. 6.11 6.10 The SCC Declaration will be utilised as evidence in assessing where a possible duplicate, fraudulent or an over claim has been made. Parents and carers should be made aware of the implications of submitting duplicate claims, fraudulent claims and over claiming funded hours as part of your charging policy. Partnerships will be supported by SCC between: • SCC and providers i.e.: maintained nurseries & schools, Early Years PVI Providers providers and childminders • Providers working with other Providersproviders, • Providers and Parentsparents, carers • SCC and Parentsparents, carers SCC promotes partnership working between different types of providers to offer flexible provision. 7.1 The Provider provider should work in partnership with parents, carers and other providers to improve provision and outcomes for children in their setting. An interactive toolkit has been developed by the Family and Childcare Trust, to help providers; set up or join a partnership, tackle the challenges joint working can bring and explore different ways of responding to the extended funded entitlement through a partnership approach and maximise the benefits of working together. You can find out further information at: xxx.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx/xxxx-00-xxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxx The Provider provider should discuss and work closely with parents, carers, to agree how a child’s overall needs will be met in practice when their funded entitlement is split across different providers, such as at a maintained school and childminder. 7.2 Attending more than one Provider 7.2.1 Attending term time settings only: • A child can attend just term-time settings, but the total claim must not be more than 15 hours or 30 hours a week (if eligible for the extended entitlement). If the child attends through the holidays, the maximum number of hours each week will be less. • Parents, carers, must make it clear on the Declaration Form before the beginning of each funded period where they want to claim the funded hours. Priority will be given to the setting who submits their information first. 7.2.2 Child attending stretched and term time providers: • Where the stretched funding Provider submits their claim first, only the weekly stretched hours balance will be available for the term time setting to claim. • Where the term time only Provider submits their claim first, there will only be a balance of hours for the stretched funding Provider to claim, which means that the hours may “run out” before the end of the funded period. The Provider will need to charge the parent, carer, for any hours that are not funded. • It might be helpful for both settings to agree to work with the Funded Early Education Team to maximise funding for each provider. • A Parent, carer, may choose to pay for all of their child’s care at your setting if they are using all of their funded hours at another setting. • If a child goes to both your setting and a maintained nursery class or school, you will only be able to claim for the funded hours that the parent, carer is not using at the maintained nursery class or school.

Flexibility. 6.1 Providers should offer parents their funded entitlement: • Up to 15 or 30* hours a week 5.1 Provision must be offered within the national parameters on flexibility as set out in Section A2 of Early Education and Childcare Statutory guidance for 38 weeks a year which equates to 570 or 1140* hours a year if stretched and offered all year round. *(for three and four-year-olds eligible for 30 hours extended entitlement).local authorities 6.2 SCC encourages providers to offer flexible packages of funded entitlement, subject to the following: • No session to be longer than 10 hours • No minimum session length (subject to requirements of registration on the Ofsted Early Years Register) • Not before 6am or after 8pm • A maximum of two sites in a single day 6.3 Providers should be aware that funded entitlement places can be delivered: • For up to 52 weeks of the year • Outside of maintained school term times • At weekends 6.4 Providers should ensure that children are able to take up their funded hours in continuous blocks and avoid artificial breaks being created throughout the day, for example over the lunch period. 6.5 5.2 The Provider provider should work with SCC the RBKC and share information about the times and periods at which they are able to offer funded hours free entitlements to support SCC the RBKC to secure sufficient stretched and flexible places to meet parental demand in Surrey. the Local Authority. 5.3 The Provider provider should also publish their admissions criteria and ensure clear and transparent make information about their offer and admissions criteria is available to parents at the point the child first accesses provision at their setting (through publicity materials, website)setting. 6.6 5.4 Providers should publish their admissions criteria and ensure parents understand which hours/sessions can define the maximum number of funded hours that they will offer in a session or day, but this information must be made clear to parents within the provider’s charging policy and website where applicable. 6.7 Parents must be asked to sign confirming that they have read and understood the arrangementstaken as EYFE. Not all providers will be able to offer fully flexible places, but providers should work with parents to ensure that as far as possible the pattern of hours is convenient for parents’ working hours. 6.8 5.5 Providers should give may allow parents and carers to stretch their child’s entitlement by taking fewer hours a reasonable notice period where a change in timings week over more weeks of sessions or patterns of attendance is required. For example, if a nursery has changed ownership and the model of delivery of funded hours has been changed for pre-existing families.year 6.9 Parents may choose to access their funded 5.6 Children receiving free entitlement at multiple providers: The Provider must ensure that each parent sign and return a ‘Parent Declaration’ form Annex A. This form needs to be completed for all children attending from Autumn 2017 and will now cover the duration of their time at your setting, up to the end of the terms in which they turn five. It should thereafter be completed for new children and where information needs to be updated for existing children e.g. attending more than one provider or on more than one site, but at no more than two sites in one dayprovider. The completed form should then be retrained by the setting for audit purposes. 6.10 Parents must complete a SCC Declaration Form 2020 each funded period with every provider that they intend to take their funded hours with, giving them consent for the provider to claim the 5.7 The entitlement can be delivered through two providers and funding on the parent’s behalf. Where the parent has not completed and signed the SCC Declaration Form 2020 upon commencement of taking their funded place at a provider, SCC reserves the right to reclaim funding paid for said child. 6.11 The SCC Declaration will be utilised as evidence in assessing where a possible duplicate, fraudulent apportioned accordingly. The only exception to this is if the child is accessing 15 hours or an over claim has been made. Parents and carers should be made aware of the implications of submitting duplicate claims, fraudulent claims and over claiming funded hours as part of your charging policy. Partnerships will be supported by SCC between: • SCC and providers i.e.: maintained nurseries & schools, Early Years PVI Providers and childminders • Providers working with other Providers, • Providers and Parents, carers • SCC and Parents, carers SCC promotes partnership working between different types of providers to offer flexible provision. 7.1 The Provider should work in partnership with parents, carers and other providers to improve provision and outcomes for children in their setting. An interactive toolkit has been developed by the Family and Childcare Trust, to help providers; set up or join a partnership, tackle the challenges joint working can bring and explore different ways of responding to the extended funded entitlement through a partnership approach and maximise the benefits of working together. You can find out further information at: xxx.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx/xxxx-00-xxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxx The Provider should discuss and work closely with parents, carers, to agree how a child’s overall needs will be met in practice when their funded entitlement is split across different providers, such as more at a maintained school and childminder. 7.2 Attending more than one Provider 7.2.1 Attending term time settings only: • A child can attend just term-time settings, but (being a school which is in receipt of other funding (i.e. targeted Entitlement or Universal Entitlement funding) from the Local Authority (a” Maintained School”) The funding will not be split so the maintained school will receive the full funding. Providers in the PVI Sector should therefore invoice parents for the total claim must not be more than 15 hours or 30 hours a week (if eligible for the extended entitlement). If the child attends through the holidays, the maximum number of hours each week will be less. • Parents, carers, must make it clear on the Declaration Form before the beginning of each funded period where they want to claim the funded hours. Priority will be given to the setting who submits used at their information firstsetting. 7.2.2 Child attending stretched and term time providers: • Where the stretched funding Provider submits their claim first, only the weekly stretched hours balance will be available for the term time setting to claim. • Where the term time only Provider submits their claim first, there will only be a balance of hours for the stretched funding Provider to claim, which means that the hours may “run out” before the end of the funded period. The Provider will need to charge the parent, carer, for any hours that are not funded. • It might be helpful for both settings to agree to work with the Funded Early Education Team to maximise funding for each provider. • A Parent, carer, may choose to pay for all of their child’s care at your setting if they are using all of their funded hours at another setting. • If a child goes to both your setting and a maintained nursery class or school, you will only be able to claim for the funded hours that the parent, carer is not using at the maintained nursery class or school.

Flexibility. 6.1 Providers should offer parents their funded entitlement: • Up to 15 or 30* hours a week for 38 weeks a year which equates to 570 or 1140* hours a year if stretched and offered all year round. *(for three and four-year-olds eligible for 30 hours extended the working parent entitlement). 6.2 SCC encourages providers Providers to offer flexible packages of funded entitlement, subject to the following: • No session to be longer than 10 hours • No minimum session length (subject to requirements of registration on the Ofsted Early Years Register) • Not before 6am or after 8pm • A maximum of two sites in a single day 6.3 Providers should be aware that funded entitlement places can be delivered: • For up to 52 weeks of the year if the parent is stretching their child’s entitlement • Outside of maintained school term times • At weekends 6.4 There is no requirement that funded places must be taken on, or delivered on, particular days of the week or at particular times of the day. There is also no requirement that Providers are open for at least 38 weeks of the year, or that Providers must offer all of the funded entitlements in order to receive funding to deliver funded places. 6.5 The funded entitlement cannot be compressed to allow the parent to access more than 15 or 30 hours per week over fewer than 38 weeks of the year. 6.6 Providers should ensure that that, where reasonably practicable, children are able to take up their funded hours in continuous blocks and avoid artificial breaks being created throughout the day, for example over the lunch period. 6.5 6.7 The Provider should work with SCC and share information about the times and periods at which they are able to offer funded hours to support SCC to secure sufficient stretched and flexible places to meet parental demand in Surrey. The Provider should also publish their admissions criteria and ensure clear and transparent information about their offer and admissions criteria is available to parents at the point the child first accesses provision at their setting (through publicity materials, website). 6.6 Providers can define the maximum number of funded hours that they will offer in a session or day, but this information must be made clear to parents within the provider’s charging policy and website where applicable. 6.7 6.8 Parents must be asked to sign confirming that they have read and understood the arrangements. Not all providers Providers will be able to offer fully flexible places, but providers Providers should work with parents to ensure that as far as possible the pattern of hours is convenient for parents’ working hours. 6.8 6.9 Providers should give parents and carers a reasonable notice period where a change in timings of sessions or patterns of attendance is required. For example, if a nursery has changed ownership and the model of delivery of funded hours has been changed for pre-existing families. 6.9 6.10 Parents may choose to access their funded entitlement at more than one provider Provider or on more than one site, but at no more than two sites in one day. 6.10 6.11 Parents must complete a SCC Declaration Form 2020 each funded period with 2023/24. A form must be completed for every provider Provider that they intend the parent intends to take their child’s funded hours with, giving them consent for the provider Provider to claim the funding on their behalf. Where parents intend to claim funded hours at more than one Provider, whether this be in Surrey or not, the parent’s behalfdetails of the other Provider must be included on the declaration form to ensure the correct funding is claimed at each Provider. Where the parent has not completed and signed the SCC Declaration Form 2020 2023/24 upon commencement of taking their funded place at a providerProvider, SCC reserves the right to reclaim funding paid for said child. 6.11 6.12 The SCC Declaration Form will be utilised as evidence in assessing where a possible duplicate, fraudulent or an over claim has been made. Parents and carers should be made aware of the implications of submitting duplicate claims, fraudulent claims and over claiming funded hours as part of your every Provider’s charging policy. Partnerships will be supported by SCC between: • SCC and providers Providers i.e.: maintained nurseries & schools, Early Years PVI Providers and childminders • Providers working with other Providers, including childminders, schools and organisations • Providers and Parentsparents, carers • SCC and Parentsparents, carers SCC promotes partnership working between different types of providers Providers to offer flexible provision. 7.1 The Provider should work in partnership with parents, carers and other providers Providers to improve provision and outcomes for children in their setting. An interactive toolkit has been developed by the Family and Childcare Trust, Trust to help providers; Providers set up or join a partnership, ; tackle the challenges joint working can bring and bring; explore different ways of responding to the extended funded entitlement through a partnership approach and maximise the benefits of working together. You can find out further information at: xxx.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx/xxxx-00-xxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxx . 7.2 The Provider should discuss and work closely with parents, carers, to agree how a child’s overall needs will be met in practice when their funded entitlement is split across different providersProviders, such as at a maintained school and childminder. 7.2 Attending more than one Provider 7.2.1 Attending term time settings only: • A child can attend just term-time settings, but the total claim must not be more than 15 hours or 30 hours a week (if eligible for the extended entitlement). If the child attends through the holidays, the maximum number of hours each week will be less. • Parents, carers, must make it clear on the Declaration Form before the beginning of each funded period where they want to claim the funded hours. Priority will be given to the setting who submits their information first. 7.2.2 Child attending stretched and term time providers: • Where the stretched funding Provider submits their claim first, only the weekly stretched hours balance will be available for the term time setting to claim. • Where the term time only Provider submits their claim first, there will only be a balance of hours for the stretched funding Provider to claim, which means that the hours may “run out” before the end of the funded period. The Provider will need to charge the parent, carer, for any hours that are not funded. • It might be helpful for both settings to agree to work with the Funded Early Education Team to maximise funding for each provider. • A Parent, carer, may choose to pay for all of their child’s care at your setting if they are using all of their funded hours at another setting. • If a child goes to both your setting and a maintained nursery class or school, you will only be able to claim for the funded hours that the parent, carer is not using at the maintained nursery class or school.

Flexibility. 6.1 Providers should offer parents their funded entitlement: • Up to 15 or 30* hours a week 7.1 Provision must be offered within the national parameters on flexibility as set out in Section A2 of Early Education and Childcare Statutory Guidance for 38 weeks a year which equates to 570 or 1140* hours a year if stretched and offered all year round. *(for three and four-year-olds eligible for 30 hours extended entitlement)Local Authorities. 6.2 SCC encourages providers to offer flexible packages of funded entitlement, subject to the following: • No session to be longer than 10 hours • No minimum session length (subject to requirements of registration on the Ofsted Early Years Register) • Not before 6am or after 8pm • A maximum of two sites in a single day 6.3 7.2 Providers should be aware that funded entitlement places can be delivered: • For up to 52 weeks of the year • Outside of maintained school term times • At weekends 6.4 Providers should ensure that children are able to take up their funded hours in continuous blocks and avoid artificial breaks being created throughout the day, for example over the lunch period. 6.5 The Provider should work with SCC the local authority and share information about the times and periods at which they are able to offer funded hours the early years entitlements to support SCC the local authority to secure sufficient stretched and flexible places to meet parental demand in Surrey. The Provider should also publish their admissions criteria and ensure clear and transparent the local authority area. 7.3 Providers must make information about their offer and admissions criteria is available to parents at the point the child first accesses provision at their setting (through publicity materials, website)setting. 6.6 Providers can define the maximum number of funded hours that 7.4 Where settings decide they will only offer in the universal entitlement, the local authority will not insist a session or day, but this information must be made clear Provider delivers the extended entitlement to parents within the provider’s charging policy and website where applicable. 6.7 Parents must be asked to sign confirming that they have read and understood the arrangementsmeet parental demand. Not all providers will be able to offer fully flexible places, but providers should work with parents to ensure that as far as possible the pattern of hours is convenient for parents’ working hours. 6.8 Providers should give parents and carers a reasonable notice period where a change in timings of sessions or patterns of attendance is required. For example, if a nursery has changed ownership and the model of delivery of funded hours has been changed for pre-existing families. 6.9 Parents may choose to access their funded entitlement at use more than one provider or on more than one site, but at no Provider to access their full early years entitlements; and how the hours are split between the Providers of their choice for the universal and extended entitlement hours. 7.5 If a child is accessing more than two sites in one a single day, the parent will be contacted by the local authority and asked to nominate settings on a maximum of two sites in a single day. The local authority will recoup any overpayment of funding. 6.10 Parents 7.6 Providers must complete a SCC Declaration Form 2020 each funded period with every provider that they intend to take their funded hours with, giving them consent for not compress the provider to claim the funding on the parent’s behalf. Where the parent has not completed and signed the SCC Declaration Form 2020 upon commencement of taking their funded place at a provider, SCC reserves the right to reclaim funding paid for said child. 6.11 The SCC Declaration will be utilised as evidence in assessing where a possible duplicate, fraudulent or an over claim has been madeearly years entitlement hours. Parents and carers should be made aware of the implications of submitting duplicate claims, fraudulent claims and over claiming funded hours as part of your charging policy. Partnerships will be supported by SCC between: • SCC and providers i.e.: maintained nurseries & schools, Early Years PVI Providers and childminders • Providers working with other Providers, • Providers and Parents, carers • SCC and Parents, carers SCC promotes partnership working between different types of providers to offer flexible provision. 7.1 The Provider should work in partnership with parents, carers and other providers to improve provision and outcomes for children in their setting. An interactive toolkit has been developed by the Family and Childcare Trust, to help providers; set up or join a partnership, tackle the challenges joint working can bring and explore different ways of responding to the extended funded entitlement through a partnership approach and maximise the benefits of working together. You can find out further information at: xxx.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx/xxxx-00-xxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxx The Provider should discuss and work closely with parents, carers, to agree how a child’s overall needs will be met in practice when their funded entitlement is split across different providers, such as at a maintained school and childminder. 7.2 Attending more than one Provider 7.2.1 Attending term time settings only: • A child can attend just term-time settings, but the total claim must cannot be take more than 15 or 30 hours per week over fewer than 38 weeks of the year. However, parents can choose a Provider that is open for fewer than 38 weeks of the year and receive the 15 or 30 hours a week during fewer weeks. 7.7 Providers must not bank unused hours (other than delivering a stretched claim over an academic year) as this can lead to an over claim if eligible for the extended entitlement). If parent leaves the child attends through Provider or chooses not to access the holidays, the maximum number hours. 7.8 Providers should deliver flexible packages of hours each week will be less. • Parents, carers, must make it clear on the Declaration Form before the beginning of each funded period where they want to claim the funded hours. Priority will be given to , with no artificial breaks, for example over the setting who submits their information firstlunch period. 7.2.2 Child attending stretched and term time providers: • 7.9 Where the stretched funding Provider submits their claim first, only the weekly stretched Providers offer additional paid for hours balance will these should be available for the term time setting offered either side of a child’s funded sessions. Parents should be able to claim. • Where the term time only Provider submits their claim first, there will only be access an early years entitlement place of up to 15 or 30 hours a balance of hours for the stretched funding Provider to claim, which means that the hours may “run out” before the end of the funded period. The Provider will need to charge the parent, carer, for any hours that are not funded. • It might be helpful for both settings to agree to work with the Funded Early Education Team to maximise funding for each provider. • A Parent, carer, may choose week without being required to pay for all additional hours. 7.10 Providers must not make the purchase of their child’s care at your setting if they are using all additional fee paid hours a condition of their accessing a funded place of up to 15 or 30 hours at another setting. • If a child goes to both your setting and a maintained nursery class or school, you will only be able to claim for the funded hours that the parent, carer is not using at the maintained nursery class or schoolper week.

Flexibility. 6.1 Providers should offer parents their funded entitlement: • Up 8.1 KCC acting through The Education People wants to 15 or 30* hours a week for 38 weeks a year which equates to 570 or 1140* hours a year if stretched and offered all year round. *(for three and four-year-olds eligible for 30 hours extended entitlement). 6.2 SCC encourages providers to offer flexible packages of funded entitlement, subject to the following: • No session to be longer than 10 hours • No minimum session length (subject to requirements of registration on the Ofsted Early Years Register) • Not before 6am or after 8pm • A maximum of two sites in a single day 6.3 Providers should be aware that funded entitlement places can be delivered: • For up to 52 weeks of the year • Outside of maintained school term times • At weekends 6.4 Providers should ensure that children are able to take up their funded full entitlement to Free Early Education at times that best support their learning and development, and at times which fit with the needs of parents to enable them to work or increase their hours of work if they wish to do so. Evidence shows that continuous provision is in the best interests of the child. Where it is reasonably practicable KCC, acting through The Education People will ensure that children are able to take up their free hours in continuous blocks and avoid artificial breaks being created throughout the day, for example over the lunch period. 6.5 8.2 The Provider Education People will encourage effective partnership working between providers from all sectors to ensure maximum flexibility for parents and their children. Providers will be encouraged to offer flexible packages of free hours with: • no session longer than 10 hours • no minimum session length (subject to the requirements of registration on the Ofsted Early Years Register) • no session commencing before 6.00am or finishing after 8.00pm • children accessing no more than two sites in a single day 8.3 Although parents can split their Free Entitlement between multiple providers, continuity of care is important for the child. Providers should work with SCC be mindful of the impact that multiple provision could have on a child’s learning, development and wellbeing. 8.4 The Education People will provide information for both providers and parents to explain there is no requirement that free places must be taken on or delivered on particular days of the week or at particular times of the day, providing they are between the hours of 6.00am and 8.00pm. 8.5 The Education People will provide information for both providers and parents to explain there is no requirement for providers to offer 30 hours in order to receive funding to deliver universal Free Early Education and that providers are free to choose not to deliver Free Early Education places at all. 8.6 Where a child is accessing Free Early Education at more than one provider, a Parental Declaration Form must be completed by the parents at both settings to show the total number of universal and/or extended hours the child will be accessing at each provision. 8.7 Providers must share information with The Education People about the times and periods at which they are able to offer funded hours Free Early Education to support SCC KCC acting through The Education People to secure sufficient stretched and flexible places to meet parental demand in Surreydemand. 8.8 Providers must ensure that their patterns of hours, during which free places are offered are clear and accessible for parents. Providers must publish their standalone 15 and 30 hour patterns to enable parents to make an informed decision on where to access their entitlement. 8.9 Providers should have a written agreement with all parents that take up a Free Early Education place. The Provider should also publish their admissions criteria and ensure clear and transparent information about their offer and admissions criteria is available to parents at the point the child first accesses provision at their setting (through publicity materials, website). 6.6 Providers Parental Declaration Form can define the maximum number of funded hours that they will offer in a session or daybe such an agreement, but this information must be made clear to signed by parents within before providers claim funding for the provider’s charging policy child5. Any fees should be clearly set out in a Fee Structure that shows how Free Early Education is delivered and website where applicableany additional charges for optional activities outside the Free Entitlement. 6.7 Parents 8.10 Free Early Education can be offered over 38 weeks or up to 52 weeks as a “stretched” offer whereby fewer weekly hours are spread over more weeks to produce the same annualised total entitlement for Free Early Education hours. Bank Holidays cannot form part of the Free Early Education hours and providers cannot include inset/training days in their funded pattern. If a funded day falls on a bank holiday, an alternative session must be asked to sign confirming that they have read and understood the arrangements. Not all providers will offered. 8.11 Where providers’ premises are used for polling stations, every effort should be able made to offer fully flexible placesalternative sessions, but providers will not be penalized financially if they are unable to do so. Other closures due to circumstances beyond a provider’s control should work with parents be notified to MI and The Education People otherwise funding may need to be returned. 8.12 Where providers are unable to offer 38 weeks of funding they must ensure that as far as possible the pattern of hours is convenient for parents’ working hours. 6.8 Providers should give parents and carers a reasonable notice period where a change in timings of sessions or patterns of attendance is required. For example, if a nursery has changed ownership and the model of delivery of funded hours has been changed for pre-existing families. 6.9 Parents may choose to are aware that they cannot access their funded full entitlement at more than one provider or on more than one site, but at no more than two sites in one day. 6.10 Parents must complete a SCC Declaration Form 2020 each funded period with every provider that they intend to take their funded hours with, giving them consent for the provider to claim the funding on the parent’s behalfthem. Where the parent has not completed and signed the SCC Declaration Form 2020 upon commencement of taking their funded place at a provider, SCC reserves the right to reclaim funding paid for said child. 6.11 The SCC Declaration will be utilised as evidence in assessing where a possible duplicate, fraudulent or an over claim has been made. Parents and carers should be made aware of the implications of submitting duplicate claims, fraudulent claims and over claiming funded hours as part of your charging policy. Partnerships will be supported by SCC between: • SCC and providers i.e.: maintained nurseries & schools, Early Years PVI Providers and childminders • Providers working with other Providers, • Providers and Parents, carers • SCC and Parents, carers SCC promotes partnership working between different types of providers to offer flexible provision. 7.1 The Provider should work in partnership with parents, carers and other providers to improve provision and outcomes for children in their setting. An interactive toolkit has been developed by the Family and Childcare Trust, to help providers; set up or join a partnership, tackle the challenges joint working can bring and explore different ways of responding to the extended funded entitlement through a partnership approach and maximise the benefits of working together. You can find out further information at: xxx.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx/xxxx-00-xxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxx The Provider should discuss and work closely with parents, carers, to agree how a child’s overall needs will be met in practice when their funded entitlement is split across different providers, such as at a maintained school and childminder. 7.2 Attending more than one Provider 7.2.1 Attending term time settings only: • A child can attend just term-time settings, but the total claim must not be offer more than 15 hours (Universal Entitlement) or 30 hours a week (if eligible Extended Entitlement) over fewer number of weeks. 5 No payment will be made to the provider unless the parental declaration has been completed and dated by the person for legal responsibility for the extended entitlement). If the child attends through the holidays, the maximum number of hours each week will be less. • Parents, carers, must make it clear on the Declaration Form before the beginning of each funded period where they want to claim the funded hours. Priority will be given to the setting who submits their information first. 7.2.2 Child attending stretched and term time providers: • Where the stretched funding Provider submits their claim first, only the weekly stretched hours balance will be available for the term time setting to claim. • Where the term time only Provider submits their claim first, there will only be a balance of hours for the stretched funding Provider to claim, which means that the hours may “run out” before the end of the funded periodnamed child. The Provider will need to charge provider must not sign the parent, carer, for any hours that are not funded. • It might be helpful for both settings to agree to work with the Funded Early Education Team to maximise funding for each provider. • A Parent, carer, may choose to pay for all of their child’s care at your setting if they are using all of their funded hours at another setting. • If a child goes to both your setting and a maintained nursery class or school, you will only be able to claim for the funded hours that the parent, carer is not using at the maintained nursery class or schooldeclaration.

Flexibility. 6.1 10.1. Providers should work with the Local Authority and share information about the times and periods at which they are able to offer parents their funded entitlement: • Up entitlements to 15 or 30* hours a week for 38 weeks a year which equates support the Local Authority to 570 or 1140* hours a year if secure sufficient stretched and offered all year round. *(for three and four-year-olds eligible for 30 hours extended entitlement)flexible places to meet parental demand in the Local Authority. 6.2 SCC encourages providers to offer flexible packages of funded entitlement, subject to the following: • No session to be longer than 10 hours • No minimum session length (subject to requirements of registration on the Ofsted Early Years Register) • Not before 6am or after 8pm • A maximum of two sites in a single day 6.3 10.2. Providers should be aware make information about their offer and admissions criteria available to parents at the point the child first accesses provision at their setting. 10.3. Evidence shows that funded entitlement places can be delivered: • For up to 52 weeks continuous provision is in the best interests of the year • Outside of maintained school term times • At weekends 6.4 Providers child. Where it is reasonably practicable providers should ensure that children are able to take up their funded hours in continuous blocks and avoid artificial breaks being created throughout the day, for example over the lunch period. 6.5 The Provider should work with SCC and share information about the times and periods at which they are able 10.4. Bracknell Forest Council is committed to supporting providers to offer funded hours to support SCC to secure sufficient stretched and flexible places to meet parental demand in Surrey. The Provider should also publish their admissions criteria need and ensure clear and transparent information about their offer and admissions criteria is available to parents at the point the child first accesses provision at their setting (through publicity materials, website). 6.6 Providers can define the maximum number of funded hours that they will offer in a session or day, but this information must be made clear to parents within the provider’s charging policy and website where applicable. 6.7 Parents must be asked to sign confirming that they have read and understood the arrangements. Not all providers will be able to offer fully flexible places, but providers should work with parents to ensure that as far as possible the pattern of hours is convenient for parents’ working hours. 6.8 Providers should give parents and carers a reasonable notice period where a change in timings of sessions or patterns of attendance is required. For example, if a nursery has changed ownership and the model of delivery of funded hours has been changed for pre-existing families. 6.9 Parents may choose to access their funded entitlement at more than one provider or on more than one site, but at no more than two sites in one day. 6.10 Parents must complete a SCC Declaration Form 2020 each funded period with every provider that they intend to take their funded hours with, giving them consent for the provider to claim the funding on the parent’s behalf. Where the parent has not completed and signed the SCC Declaration Form 2020 upon commencement of taking their funded place at a provider, SCC reserves the right to reclaim funding paid for said child. 6.11 The SCC Declaration will be utilised as evidence in assessing where a possible duplicate, fraudulent or an over claim has been made. Parents and carers should be made aware of the implications of submitting duplicate claims, fraudulent claims and over claiming funded hours as part of your charging policy. Partnerships will be supported by SCC between: • SCC and providers i.e.: maintained nurseries & schools, Early Years PVI Providers and childminders • Providers working with other Providers, • Providers and Parents, carers • SCC and Parents, carers SCC promotes partnership working between different types of providers to offer flexible provision. 7.1 The Provider should work in partnership with parents, carers and other providers to improve provision and outcomes for children in their settingachieve this. An interactive toolkit has been developed by Providers are encouraged to offer flexible packages of places, within the Family and Childcare Trust, to help providers; set up or join a partnership, tackle the challenges joint working can bring and explore different ways of responding following parameters: • no session longer than 10 hours • no minimum session length (subject to the extended funded entitlement through requirements of registration on the Ofsted Early Years Register) • not before 6.00am or after 8.00pm • a partnership approach and maximise maximum of two sites in a single day • up to 52 weeks of the benefits of working together. You can find out further information at: xxx.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx/xxxx-00-xxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxx The Provider should discuss and work closely with parents, carers, to agree how a year if the parent is stretching their child’s overall needs will entitlement • can be met in practice when their funded entitlement is split across different providers, such as at a outside of maintained school and childminderterm times • can include weekends 10.5. Subject to the standards set out in 10.4, there is no requirement for entitlement places to be taken on, or delivered on, particular days of the week or at particular times of the day. 7.2 Attending 10.6. If parents choose to take their entitlement with more than one Providerprovider, all parties have a duty to ensure there is a system in place to ensure continuity of care and that regular liaison between providers takes place. 7.2.1 Attending 10.7. Where a child attends 2 or more settings per week, it is up to the parent to decide the distribution of hours between the settings. The distribution of hours must be recorded on the Parent Declaration Form (PDF). Each provider will claim funding according to the distribution of hours recorded on the PDF. 10.8. The situation may arise where a child attends one provider term time settings only: • A child can attend just term-time settings, but the total claim must not be only and a second provider on a stretched offer over more than 38 weeks. Providers should check the funded hours claimed across both providers to ensure that the child is receiving a maximum of 15 hours or 30 funded hours a week and a maximum of 570 hours a year (if eligible or 1140 hours for children accessing the extended 30 hours entitlement). 10.9. If There is no requirement for providers to be open for 38 weeks of the child attends through year or to offer all the holidaysentitlements to receive funding to deliver entitlement places. However, the maximum number of hours each week will be less. • Parents, carers, providers must make it clear on the Declaration Form before the beginning of each funded period where they want to claim the funded hours. Priority will be given parents, prior to the setting who submits child taking up their information firstplace, where their business model restricts access to the full entitlement. 7.2.2 Child attending stretched and term time providers: • Where the stretched funding Provider submits their claim first, only the weekly stretched hours balance will be available for the term time setting to claim. • Where the term time only Provider submits their claim first, there will only be a balance of hours for the stretched funding Provider to claim, which means that the hours may “run out” before the end of the funded period. The Provider will need to charge the parent, carer, for any hours that are not funded. • It might be helpful for both settings to agree to work with the Funded Early Education Team to maximise funding for each provider. • A Parent, carer, may choose to pay for all of their child’s care at your setting if they are using all of their funded hours at another setting. • If a child goes to both your setting and a maintained nursery class or school, you will only be able to claim for the funded hours that the parent, carer is not using at the maintained nursery class or school.

Flexibility. 6.1 Providers Provision must be offered within the national parameters on flexibility as set out in Section A2 of Early Education and Childcare Statutory guidance for local authorities (2017) which states: The provider should work with the Local Authority and share information about the times and periods at which they are able to offer parents their funded entitlement: • Up free entitlements to 15 or 30* hours a week for 38 weeks a year which equates support the Local Authority to 570 or 1140* hours a year if secure sufficient stretched and offered all year roundflexible places to meet parental demand in the Local Authority. *(for three The provider should also make information about their offer and four-year-olds eligible for 30 hours extended entitlement). 6.2 SCC encourages providers admissions criteria available to offer flexible packages of funded entitlement, subject to parents at the following: • No session to be longer than 10 hours • No minimum session length (subject to requirements of registration on point the Ofsted Early Years Register) • Not before 6am or after 8pm • A maximum of two sites child first accesses provision at their setting. Evidence shows that continuous provision is in a single day 6.3 Providers should be aware that funded entitlement places can be delivered: • For up to 52 weeks the best interests of the year • Outside of maintained school term times • At weekends 6.4 Providers child. Where it is reasonably practicable providers should ensure that children are able to take up their funded free hours in continuous blocks and avoid artificial breaks being created throughout the day, for example over the lunch period. 6.5 The Provider should work with SCC and share information about the times and periods at which they are able . BFC is committed to supporting providers to offer funded hours to support SCC to secure sufficient stretched and flexible places to meet parental demand need and will therefore work in Surreypartnership with providers to achieve this. The Provider should also publish Providers are encouraged to offer flexible packages of free places, within the following parameters:  no session longer than 10 hours  no minimum session length (subject to the requirements of registration on the Ofsted Early Years Register)  not before 6.00am or after 8.00pm  a maximum of two sites in a single day  up to 52 weeks of the year  can be outside of maintained school term times  can include weekends For providers offering a stretched offer, where fewer funded hours per week are delivered across more than 38 weeks of the year, the total annual allocation of 570 hours (universal) or 1140 (extended) is divided by the providers operating weeks. Stretched offers must be published and accessible to parents. Please see our website for more advice and guidance on calculating a stretched offer If parents choose to take their admissions criteria entitlement with more than one provider, all parties have a duty to ensure there is a system in place to ensure continuity of care and ensure that regular liaison between providers takes place. Where a child attends 2 or more settings per week, it is up to the parent to decide the distribution of free hours between the settings. There is no requirement for providers to be open for 38 weeks of the year or that providers offer 30 hours in order to receive funding to deliver free places. However providers must make it clear and transparent information about their offer and admissions criteria is available to parents at the point parents, prior to the child first accesses provision at taking up their setting (through publicity materialsplace, website). 6.6 where their business model restricts access to the full free entitlement. Providers can define must ensure they hold a fully completed, signed Parent Declaration for the maximum number free entitlements for each child they are claiming for. This is an agreement between the parent and the provider detailing what free entitlement funding the provider will claim on behalf of the child. Where the distribution of funded hours that they is in dispute between providers, BFC will offer in a session or day, but this information must be made clear to parents within the provider’s charging policy and website where applicable. 6.7 Parents must be asked to sign confirming that they have read and understood the arrangements. Not all providers will be able to offer fully flexible places, but providers should work with parents to ensure that as far as possible the pattern of hours is convenient for parents’ working hours. 6.8 Providers should give parents and carers a reasonable notice period where a change in timings of sessions or patterns of attendance is required. For example, if a nursery has changed ownership and the model of delivery of funded hours has been changed for pre-existing families. 6.9 Parents may choose to access their funded entitlement at more than one provider or on more than one site, but at no more than two sites in one day. 6.10 Parents must complete a SCC Declaration Form 2020 each funded period with every provider that they intend to take their funded hours with, giving them consent for the provider to claim the base any funding decisions on the parent’s behalfParent Declaration form. Where the parent has not completed and signed the SCC Declaration Form 2020 upon commencement of taking their funded place at a provider, SCC BFC reserves the right to reclaim clawback funding paid where providers do not hold a completed, signed Parent Declaration for said child. 6.11 the funding claimed. The SCC Parent Declaration will be utilised as evidence in assessing where a possible duplicate, fraudulent or an over claim has been made. Parents does not replace the contract between the provider and carers should be made aware of the implications of submitting duplicate claims, fraudulent claims and over claiming funded hours as part of your charging policy. Partnerships will be supported by SCC between: • SCC parent/carer and providers i.e.: maintained nurseries & schools, Early Years PVI Providers are strongly advised to have signed contracts with all parents. A new Parent Declaration form must be completed and childminders • Providers working with other Providers, • Providers signed for each change in hours claimed and Parents, carers • SCC and Parents, carers SCC promotes partnership working between different types of providers to offer flexible provision. 7.1 The Provider should work in partnership with parents, carers and other providers to improve provision and outcomes for children in their setting. An interactive toolkit has been developed by the Family and Childcare Trust, to help providers; set up or join a partnership, tackle the challenges joint working can bring and explore different ways of responding attached to the extended funded entitlement through superseded declaration. This provides a partnership approach and maximise the benefits full audit trail of working together. You can find out further information at: xxx.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx/xxxx-00-xxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxx The Provider should discuss and work closely with parents, carers, to agree how a child’s overall needs will be met in practice when their funded entitlement is split across different providers, such as at a maintained school and childminder. 7.2 Attending more than one Provider 7.2.1 Attending term time settings only: • A child can attend just term-time settings, but the total claim must not be more than 15 free hours or 30 hours a week (if eligible for the extended entitlement). If the child attends through the holidays, the maximum number of hours each week will be less. • Parents, carers, must make it clear on the Declaration Form before the beginning of each funded period where they want to claim the funded hours. Priority will be given to the setting who submits their information first. 7.2.2 Child attending stretched and term time providers: • Where the stretched funding Provider submits their claim first, only the weekly stretched hours balance will be available for the term time setting to claim. • Where the term time only Provider submits their claim first, there will only be a balance of hours for the stretched funding Provider to claim, which means that the hours may “run out” before the end of the funded period. The Provider will need to charge the parent, carer, for any hours that are not funded. • It might be helpful for both settings to agree to work with the Funded Early Education Team to maximise funding claimed for each providerchild. • A Parent, carer, may choose to pay for all of their child’s care at your setting if they are using all of their funded hours at another setting. • If a child goes to both your setting and a maintained nursery class or school, you will only be able to claim for the funded hours that the parent, carer It is not using at the maintained nursery class or schoolacceptable to cross out/change hours and initial declarations.

Flexibility. 6.1 Providers should offer parents their funded entitlement: • Up to 15 or 30* hours a week for 38 weeks a year which equates to 570 or 1140* hours a year if stretched and 9.1 Provision must be offered all year roundwithin the national parameters on flexibility as set out in the Guidance. *(for three and four-year-olds eligible for 30 hours extended entitlement). 6.2 SCC encourages providers to offer flexible packages of funded entitlement, subject to the following: • No session to be longer than 10 hours • No minimum session length (subject to requirements of registration on the Ofsted Early Years Register) • Not before 6am or after 8pm • A maximum of two sites in a single day 6.3 Providers should be aware that funded entitlement places can be delivered: • For up to 52 weeks of the year • Outside of maintained school term times • At weekends 6.4 Providers should ensure that children are able to take up their funded hours in continuous blocks and avoid artificial breaks being created throughout the day, for example over the lunch period. 6.5 The Provider should work with SCC the Council and share information about the times and periods at which they are able to offer funded hours Free Entitlement Places to support SCC the Council to secure sufficient stretched and flexible places to meet parental demand in Surreydemand. The Provider should also publish make information about their offer, admissions criteria and ensure clear schedule of charges for additional hours and transparent information about their offer and admissions criteria is Services available to parents no later than at the point the child first accesses provision at their setting (through publicity materials, website)setting. 6.6 Providers can define 9.3 The Provider is encouraged to offer a flexible choice of free entitlement hours to fit with the maximum number needs of funded hours that they will offer in a session or day, but this information must be made clear to parents within the provider’s charging policy Parents and website where applicableService Users. 6.7 Parents must be asked to sign confirming that they have read and understood 9.4 It is the arrangements. Not all providers will be able to offer fully flexible places, but providers should work with parents Provider’s responsibility to ensure that as far as possible the pattern of total hours claimed for a child does not exceed the child’s entitlement. If the delivery is convenient for parents’ working hours. 6.8 Providers should give parents and carers a reasonable notice period where a change in timings of sessions or patterns of attendance is required. For example, if a nursery has changed ownership and the model of delivery of funded hours has been changed for pre-existing families. 6.9 Parents may choose to access their funded entitlement at shared by more than one provider or on more than one siteProvider, but at no more than two sites in one day. 6.10 Parents must complete a SCC Declaration Form 2020 each funded period with every provider that they intend it is the Provider’s responsibility to take their funded hours with, giving them consent for the provider to claim the funding on the parent’s behalf. Where the parent has not completed and signed the SCC Declaration Form 2020 upon commencement of taking their funded place at a provider, SCC reserves the right to reclaim funding paid for said child. 6.11 The SCC Declaration will be utilised as evidence in assessing where a possible duplicate, fraudulent or an over claim has been made. Parents and carers should be made aware of the implications of submitting duplicate claims, fraudulent claims and over claiming funded hours as part of your charging policy. Partnerships will be supported being claimed for by SCC between: • SCC and providers i.e.: maintained nurseries & schools, Early Years PVI Providers and childminders • Providers working with other Providers, • Providers . The Parent will complete a Parent Declaration Form and Parents, carers • SCC Section 4 contains information on providers and Parents, carers SCC promotes partnership working between different types of providers to offer flexible provision. 7.1 The Provider should work in partnership with parents, carers and other providers to improve provision and outcomes for children in their settingattendance details. An interactive toolkit has been developed by the Family and Childcare Trust, to help providers; set up or join a partnership, tackle the challenges joint working can bring and explore different ways of responding to the extended funded entitlement through a partnership approach and maximise the benefits of working together. You can find out further information at: xxx.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx/xxxx-00-xxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxx The Provider should discuss and work closely any concerns arising from this information with parents, carers, the Parent to agree how ensure the Parent is not claiming for more hours that they are entitled to. 9.5 It is the Provider’s responsibility to ensure a Parent Declaration Form: a) is completed for every child who will access a Free Entitlement Place (separate form for each child); b) has the child’s overall needs date of birth information confirmed through the Provider seeing original documentation i.e. birth certificate, passport, NHS medical card; c) is completed and signed by the Parent prior to the child taking up their Free Entitlement Place; and d) is checked for accuracy and re-signed prior to every Funding Period 9.6 All Providers will be met in practice when their funded make available to Parents the option of taking the free entitlement is split across different providers, such as at a maintained school and childminderhours over 38 weeks of the year (term time). 7.2 Attending 9.7 Providers who choose to deliver a stretched offer where the free entitlement hours are taken over more than one Provider 7.2.1 Attending term time settings only: • A child can attend just term-time settings, but the total claim must not be more than 15 hours or 30 hours a week (if eligible for the extended entitlement). If the child attends through the holidays, the maximum number of hours each week will be less. • Parents, carers, must make it clear on the Declaration Form before the beginning of each funded period where they want to claim the funded hours. Priority will be given to the setting who submits their information first. 7.2.2 Child attending stretched and term time providers: • Where the stretched funding Provider submits their claim first, only the weekly stretched hours balance will be available for the term time setting to claim. • Where the term time only Provider submits their claim first, there will only be a balance of hours for the stretched funding Provider to claim, which means that the hours may “run out” before the end 38 weeks of the funded period. The Provider will need to charge the parentyear, carer, for any hours that are not funded. • It might be helpful for both settings to agree to work with the Funded Early Education Team to maximise funding for each provider. • A Parent, carer, may can choose to pay for offer one, all or a combination of their child’s care at your setting if they are using all of their funded hours at another setting. • If a child goes to both your setting and a maintained nursery class or school, you will only be able to claim for the funded hours that the parent, carer is not using at the maintained nursery class or school.following options: 51 weeks; 50 weeks; 47.5 weeks; 45 weeks

Flexibility. 6.1 Providers should offer parents their funded entitlement: • Up to 15 or 30* hours a week 7.1. Provision must be offered within the national parameters on flexibility as set out in Section A2 of the Early Education and Childcare Statutory Guidance for 38 weeks a year which equates to 570 or 1140* hours a year if stretched and offered all year round. *(for three and four-year-olds eligible for 30 hours extended entitlement)Local Authorities. 6.2 SCC encourages providers to offer flexible packages of funded entitlement, subject to the following: • No session to be longer than 10 hours • No minimum session length (subject to requirements of registration on the Ofsted Early Years Register) • Not before 6am or after 8pm • A maximum of two sites in a single day 6.3 Providers should be aware that funded entitlement places can be delivered: • For up to 52 weeks of the year • Outside of maintained school term times • At weekends 6.4 Providers should ensure that children are able to take up their funded hours in continuous blocks and avoid artificial breaks being created throughout the day, for example over the lunch period. 6.5 7.2. The Provider provider should work with SCC the authority and share information about the times and periods at which they are able to offer funded hours to support SCC free entitlements via Plymouth Online Directory and the Family Information Directory. 7.3. The provider should work in partnership with the authority to secure sufficient stretched and flexible places to meet parental demand in Surreythe local area. The Provider provider should also publish their admissions criteria and ensure clear and transparent make information about their offer and admissions criteria is available to parents at the point the child first accesses provision at their setting (through publicity materials, website)setting. 6.6 Providers can define the maximum number of funded hours that they will offer in a session or day, but this information must be made clear to parents within the provider’s charging policy and website where applicable. 6.7 Parents must be asked to sign confirming that they have read and understood the arrangements7.4. Not all providers will Children should be able to offer fully flexible places, but take up their free hours as part of continuous provision and providers should work with parents to ensure that as far as possible avoid artificial breaks in the pattern of hours is convenient for parents’ working hours. 6.8 Providers should give parents and carers a reasonable notice period where a change in timings of sessions or patterns of attendance is requiredday wherever possible. For example, if the lunch time hour/session should form part of the free provision where the child is attending a nursery has changed ownership morning and afternoon session. Providers may wish to offer additional hours around the model free provision hours. Please see examples shown in Early Years Entitlements Operational Guidance June 2018. Early_years_entitlements-operational_guidance.pdf 7.5. Private, voluntary and independent providers are free to set their own criteria for the admission of delivery children, providing they comply with relevant legislation on equalities and non-discrimination. However, all parents should have the same rights to access a free entitlement place, regardless of funded whether they choose to pay for additional hours has been changed for pre-existing familiesof provision, additional activities or meals. Whilst the child continues to take up their free entitlement there should be no restrictions on that place e.g. parents should not have to reserve a place each term. 6.9 Parents may choose 7.6. Providers should ensure that their admissions information is clear and accessible for parents. Providers must publish the number of standalone 15 and 30 hours places on the Family Information Directory (FID) on the settings information page. This will enable parents to access make an informed decision on where to take up their funded entitlement at more than one provider or on more than one site, but at no more than two sites in one daychild’s entitlement. 6.10 Parents must complete a SCC Declaration Form 2020 each funded period with every provider 7.7. Providers should ensure that they intend to take their funded hours with, giving them consent are completely transparent and as flexible as possible about which hours/sessions can be taken as free provision and this should be consistent for all parents taking up free hours. Providers should provide parents with clear and itemised invoices showing the provider to claim the funding on the parent’s behalfbreakdown of all charges. Where the parent has not completed and signed the SCC Declaration Form 2020 upon commencement of taking their funded place at a provider, SCC The authority reserves the right to reclaim funding paid for said childchallenge unclear invoicing systems. 6.11 The SCC Declaration will be utilised as evidence in assessing where a possible duplicate, fraudulent or an over claim has been made7.8. Parents and carers should be made aware of the implications of submitting duplicate claims, fraudulent claims and over claiming funded hours as part of your charging policy. Partnerships will be supported by SCC between: • SCC and providers i.e.: maintained nurseries & schools, Early Years PVI Providers and childminders • Providers working with other Providers, • Providers and Parents, carers • SCC and Parents, carers SCC promotes partnership working between different types of providers to offer flexible provision. 7.1 The Provider should work in partnership with parents, carers and other providers to improve provision and outcomes for children in their setting. An interactive toolkit has been developed by the Family and Childcare Trust, to help providers; set up or join a partnership, tackle the challenges joint working can bring and explore different ways of responding to the extended funded entitlement through a partnership approach and maximise the benefits of working together. You can find out further information at: xxx.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx/xxxx-00-xxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxx The Provider should discuss and work closely with parents, carers, to agree how a child’s overall needs will be met in practice when their funded entitlement is split across different providers, such as at a maintained school and childminder. 7.2 Attending more than one Provider 7.2.1 Attending term time settings only: • A child can attend just term-time settingsmultiple provisions for their weekly funded hours but a maximum of two providers can be used in a day. 7.9. It is the parent’s responsibility to determine how the hours are divided across all providers and clearly identify the division of hours on the Parent Declaration form. It is the provider’s responsibility to ensure the accuracy of hours stated on the Parent Declaration by communicating early with the other providers stated on the form. 7.10. A child accessing a Stretched Offer may attend two providers per day, but and is funded the total claim must not be more than maximum of 12 hours per week if in receipt of 15 hours free childcare or 24 hours per week if in receipt of 30 hours a week (if eligible for the extended entitlement)free child care. 7.11. If the child attends through transfers to another provider during the holidaysterm, then the maximum parent/carer must indicate where their child was previously attending and for how many weeks and which offer (Standard or Stretched) is being accessed, this should be stated on the Parent Declaration Form. It is the provider’s responsibility to communicate with the previous provider. 7.12. If the transfer occurs before the headcount payment is released, then the funding can be apportioned by the authority with agreement of both providers and by informing the local authority finance department. 7.13. It is important that the determination of how the 15/30 hours is divided between the providers is completed at the beginning of term when the Parent Declaration forms are signed. If more than 15/30 hours (Double Claimer) are claimed and this is only identified after Headcount, then it is likely to result in a delay of payment or a reclaim of any excess payment made. In the event of no agreement being reached between the providers, then the authority will make the final decision. 7.14. Parent declaration forms should be completed on behalf of all children who attend the setting and take-up their free entitlement. The form should state the number of hours each being claimed (rounded down to the nearest half hour) by the parent as well as details of other settings their child may be attending. 7.15. Parents are not required to complete a new declaration form in the first week of every term, if there has been no change in circumstance/take-up of the free entitlement. Parents should sign their original form on a termly basis to confirm that the original parent declaration form remains valid. Parents will be lessrequired to sign a new parent declaration form during the first week of term if their child has started a new setting or has increased/decreased their take-up. 7.16. • ParentsIf a child is accessing a 30 hour place and splitting their entitlement across multiple providers, carersit is important that the Parent Declaration form specifies how many universal hours and how many extended hours will be claimed with each provider. 7.17. If a child joins the setting after the first week of term, the parent/carer must make it clear state on the Parent Declaration Form before form where their child was previously attending and for how many weeks. 7.18. The Parent Declaration form includes a section for the beginning Ethnic Origin and the First Language of each funded period where they want the child to claim be recorded, however this section is optional, but the funded hoursinformation will assist the Department for Education and the authority in providing a better service. 7.19. Priority If the parent/carer is entitled to 30 hours of free childcare, their eligibility code and National Insurance number should be stated on the form. These details will be given used by the provider to verify the eligibility code. 7.20. The Parent Declaration form includes a section where parents/carers can state if their child is in receipt of Disability Living Allowance (care element or mobility element) and therefore eligible for Disability Access Funding. The provider must also see a copy of the DLA letter and tick the proof of eligibility section. A copy of the eligibility letter should be attached to the setting who submits their information firstparent declaration form and retained by the provider. 7.2.2 Child attending stretched 7.21. The provider must see proof of eligibility of the child’s age and term time providers: • Where tick the stretched proof of eligibility section of the Parent Declaration form. 7.22. For two year old funding, the provider must also see the Confirmation of Eligibility confirming eligibility for two year old funding Provider submits their claim firstand tick the two year old eligibility section on the Parent Declaration Form. A copy of the confirmation letter should be attached to the Parent Declaration form and retained by the provider. Once the setting has been provided with a confirmation letter, only a placement notification should be completed on the weekly stretched hours balance will early years provider portal. 7.23. The responsible officer must sign the Parent Declaration form on behalf of the provider. 7.24. Parent Declarations must be retained by the provider and be available for audit verification. 7.25. Parent Declaration forms are published on the term time setting to claim. • Where the term time only Early Education Funding and The Provider submits their claim first, there will only be a balance of hours for the stretched funding Provider to claim, which means that the hours may “run out” before the end of the funded periodPortal webpage. 7.26. The Provider will need provider may incorporate the details of Parent Declaration form as set out above into their Parent Contract, in order to charge simplify the parent, carer, for any hours that are not fundedpaperwork. • It might be helpful for both settings to agree to work with the Funded Early Education Team to maximise funding for each provider. • A Parent, carer, may choose to pay for all of their child’s care at your setting if they are using all of their funded hours at another setting. • If a child goes to both your setting and a maintained nursery class or school, you will only be able to claim for the funded hours that the parent, carer is not using at the maintained nursery class or school.Parent_Declaration_Form_Standard_Offer.pdf

Flexibility. 6.1 Providers Children are able to take up their full entitlement to early education at times that best support their learning and development, and at times which fit with the needs of parents to enable them to work or increase their hours of work if they wish to do so. 6.1. Provision must be offered within the national parameters on flexibility as set out in Section A2 of the Early Education and Childcare Statutory Guidance for Local Authorities. 6.2. The provider should work with the LA and share information about the times and periods at which they are able to offer parents their funded entitlement: • Up entitlements, to 15 or 30* hours a week for 38 weeks a year which equates support the LA to 570 or 1140* hours a year if secure sufficient stretched and offered all year roundflexible places to meet parental demand. *(for three The provider must make information about their offer and four-year-olds eligible for 30 hours extended entitlement)admissions criteria available to parents at the point the child first accesses provision at their setting. 6.2 SCC encourages providers 6.3. Providers are not expected to offer agree to all flexible packages requests from every individual parent. It is understood that changes to patterns of funded entitlement, subject delivery to the following: • No session more flexible provision will need to be longer than 10 hours • No minimum session length (subject sustainable and demanded by a number of parents to requirements of registration on be financially viable. 6.4. Evidence shows that continuous provision is in the Ofsted Early Years Register) • Not before 6am or after 8pm • A maximum of two sites in a single day 6.3 Providers should be aware that funded entitlement places can be delivered: • For up to 52 weeks best interests of the year • Outside of maintained school term times • At weekends 6.4 Providers child. Where it is reasonably practicable LAs should ensure that children are able to take up their funded hours in continuous blocks and avoid artificial breaks being created throughout the day, for example over the lunch period. 6.5 6.5. There is no requirement that providers must be open for at least 38 weeks of the year, or that providers must offer all the funded entitlements in order to receive funding to deliver funded places. 6.6. Where multiple providers are being accessed, parents should inform each provider of which is the main provider and the total hours claimed at each provision, ensuring that in no circumstance does a weekly claim exceed 15 or 30 hours per week. The Provider Parent/Carer Declaration form should work detail providers and hours. If, during the termly headcount process, hours are found to exceed the maximum allowance each provider will be informed and must discuss with SCC and share information about the times and periods at which they are able to offer parent how funded hours are to support SCC to secure sufficient stretched and flexible places to meet parental demand in Surreybe distributed. The Provider should also publish parent will be liable to their admissions criteria and ensure clear and transparent information about their offer and admissions criteria is available to parents at provider for any hours claimed over the point the child first accesses provision at their setting (through publicity materials, website)maximum allowance. 6.6 Providers can define the maximum number of funded hours that they will offer in 6.7. If a session or dayprovider chooses to be closed on a bank holiday, but this information must be made clear to parents within the provider’s charging policy and website where applicable. 6.7 Parents must be asked to sign confirming that they have read and understood the arrangements. Not all providers will parent/carers should be able to offer fully flexible placesrequest movement of any lost early education hours to another point in the week/funding period, but providers should work with parents within the operational capacity of the provider. Providers are encouraged to ensure that as far as possible the pattern of hours is convenient for parents’ working hoursaccommodate these requests where possible. 6.8 6.8. Providers should give parents and carers a reasonable notice period where a change in timings of sessions or patterns of attendance is required. For example, if a nursery has changed ownership and the model of delivery of funded hours has been changed for pre-existing families. 6.9 Parents may 6.9. Providers can choose not to access their deliver funded entitlement at more than one provider or on more than one site, but at no more than two sites in one dayplaces. 6.10 Parents must complete a SCC Declaration Form 2020 each funded period with every provider that they intend to take their funded hours with, giving them consent for the provider to claim the funding on the parent’s behalf. Where the parent has not completed and signed the SCC Declaration Form 2020 upon commencement of taking their funded place at a provider, SCC reserves the right to reclaim funding paid for said child. 6.11 The SCC Declaration will be utilised as evidence in assessing where a possible duplicate, fraudulent or an over claim has been made. Parents and carers should be made aware of the implications of submitting duplicate claims, fraudulent claims and over claiming funded hours as part of your charging policy. Partnerships will be supported by SCC between: • SCC and providers i.e.: maintained nurseries & schools, Early Years PVI Providers and childminders • Providers working with other Providers, • Providers and Parents, carers • SCC and Parents, carers SCC promotes partnership working between different types of providers to offer flexible provision. 7.1 The Provider should work in partnership with parents, carers and other providers to improve provision and outcomes for children in their setting. An interactive toolkit has been developed by the Family and Childcare Trust, to help providers; set up or join a partnership, tackle the challenges joint working can bring and explore different ways of responding to the extended funded entitlement through a partnership approach and maximise the benefits of working together. You can find out further information at: xxx.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx/xxxx-00-xxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxx The Provider should discuss and work closely with parents, carers, to agree how a child’s overall needs will be met in practice when their funded entitlement is split across different providers, such as at a maintained school and childminder. 7.2 Attending more than one Provider 7.2.1 Attending term time settings only: • A child can attend just term-time settings, but the total claim must not be more than 15 hours or 30 hours a week (if eligible for the extended entitlement). If the child attends through the holidays, the maximum number of hours each week will be less. • Parents, carers, must make it clear on the Declaration Form before the beginning of each funded period where they want to claim the funded hours. Priority will be given to the setting who submits their information first. 7.2.2 Child attending stretched and term time providers: • Where the stretched funding Provider submits their claim first, only the weekly stretched hours balance will be available for the term time setting to claim. • Where the term time only Provider submits their claim first, there will only be a balance of hours for the stretched funding Provider to claim, which means that the hours may “run out” before the end of the funded period. The Provider will need to charge the parent, carer, for any hours that are not funded. • It might be helpful for both settings to agree to work with the Funded Early Education Team to maximise funding for each provider. • A Parent, carer, may choose to pay for all of their child’s care at your setting if they are using all of their funded hours at another setting. • If a child goes to both your setting and a maintained nursery class or school, you will only be able to claim for the funded hours that the parent, carer is not using at the maintained nursery class or school.

Flexibility. 6.1 Providers should offer parents their funded entitlement: • Up to 15 or 30* hours a week for 38 weeks a year which equates to 570 or 1140* hours a year if stretched and offered all year round. *(for three and four-year-olds eligible for 30 hours extended entitlement). 6.2 SCC encourages providers to offer flexible packages of funded entitlement, subject to the following: • No session to be longer than 10 hours • No minimum session length (subject to requirements of registration on the Ofsted Early Years Register) • Not before 6am or after 8pm • A maximum of two sites in a single day 6.3 Providers should be aware that funded entitlement places can be delivered: • For up to 52 weeks of the year • Outside of maintained school term times • At weekends 6.4 Providers should ensure that children are able to take up their funded hours in continuous blocks and avoid artificial breaks being created throughout the day, for example over the lunch period. 6.5 The Provider provider should work with SCC and share information about the times and periods at which they are able to offer funded hours to support SCC to secure sufficient stretched and flexible places to meet parental demand in Surrey. The Provider provider should also publish their admissions criteria and ensure clear and transparent information about their offer and admissions criteria is available to parents at the point the child first accesses provision at their setting (through publicity materials, website). 6.6 Providers can define the maximum number of funded hours that they will offer in a session or day, but this information must be made clear to parents within the provider’s charging policy and website where applicable. 6.7 Parents must be asked to sign confirming that they have read and understood the arrangements. Not all providers will be able to offer fully flexible places, but providers should work with parents to ensure that as far as possible the pattern of hours is convenient for parents’ working hours. 6.8 6.7 Providers should give parents and carers a reasonable notice period where a change in timings of sessions or patterns of attendance is required. For example, if a nursery has changed ownership and the model of delivery of funded hours has been changed for pre-existing families. 6.9 6.8 Parents may choose to access their funded entitlement at more than one provider or on more than one site, but at no more than two sites in one day. 6.10 6.9 Parents must complete a SCC Declaration Form 2020 2022 each funded period with every provider that they intend to take their funded hours with, giving them consent for the provider to claim the funding on the parent’s behalf. Where the parent has not completed and signed the SCC Declaration Form 2020 2022 upon commencement of taking their funded place at a provider, SCC reserves the right to reclaim funding paid for said child. 6.11 6.10 The SCC Declaration will be utilised as evidence in assessing where a possible duplicate, fraudulent or an over claim has been made. Parents and carers should be made aware of the implications of submitting duplicate claims, fraudulent claims and over claiming funded hours as part of your charging policy. Partnerships will be supported by SCC between: • SCC and providers i.e.: maintained nurseries & schools, Early Years PVI Providers providers and childminders • Providers working with other Providersproviders, • Providers and Parentsparents, carers • SCC and Parentsparents, carers SCC promotes partnership working between different types of providers to offer flexible provision. 7.1 The Provider provider should work in partnership with parents, carers and other providers to improve provision and outcomes for children in their setting. An interactive toolkit has been developed by the Family and Childcare Trust, Trust to help providers; providers set up or join a partnership, ; tackle the challenges joint working can bring and bring; explore different ways of responding to the extended funded entitlement through a partnership approach and maximise the benefits of working together. You can find out further information at: xxx.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx/xxxx-00-xxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxx :xxx.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx/xxxx-00-xxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxx The Provider provider should discuss and work closely with parents, carers, to agree how a child’s overall needs will be met in practice when their funded entitlement is split across different providers, such as at a maintained school and childminder. 7.2 Attending more than one Provider 7.2.1 Attending term time settings only: • A child can attend just term-time settings, but the total claim must not be more than 15 hours or 30 hours a week (if eligible for the extended entitlement). If the child attends through the holidays, the maximum number of hours each week will be less. • Parents, carers, must make it clear on the Declaration Form before the beginning of each funded period where they want to claim the funded hours. Priority will be given to the setting who submits their information first. 7.2.2 Child attending stretched and term time providers: • Where the stretched funding Provider submits their claim first, only the weekly stretched hours balance will be available for the term time setting to claim. • Where the term time only Provider submits their claim first, there will only be a balance of hours for the stretched funding Provider to claim, which means that the hours may “run out” before the end of the funded period. The Provider will need to charge the parent, carer, for any hours that are not funded. • It might be helpful for both settings to agree to work with the Funded Early Education Team to maximise funding for each provider. • A Parent, carer, may choose to pay for all of their child’s care at your setting if they are using all of their funded hours at another setting. • If a child goes to both your setting and a maintained nursery class or school, you will only be able to claim for the funded hours that the parent, carer is not using at the maintained nursery class or school.

Flexibility. 6.1 Providers should offer parents their funded entitlement: • Up to 15 or 30* hours a week 8.1 Provision must be offered within the national parameters on flexibility as set out in Section A2 of Early Education and Childcare Statutory guidance for 38 weeks a year Local Authorities, which equates to 570 or 1140* hours a year if stretched and offered all year round. *(for three and four-year-olds eligible for 30 hours extended entitlement). 6.2 SCC encourages providers to offer flexible packages of funded entitlement, subject to the followingincludes: • No session to be longer than 10 hours hours. • No minimum session length (subject to requirements of registration on the Ofsted Early Years Register) length. • Not before 6am or after 8pm pm. • A maximum of two sites in a single day 6.3 Providers should be aware that funded entitlement places can be delivered: . • For up to 52 weeks of the year • Outside of maintained school term times • At weekends 6.4 Providers should ensure that children are able to take up their funded hours in continuous blocks and avoid artificial breaks being created throughout the Continuous provision during a day, for example over the lunch periodwithout ‘artificial breaks’. 6.5 8.2 The Provider provider should work with SCC the local authority and share information about the times and periods at which they are able to offer funded hours free entitlements to support SCC the local authority to secure sufficient stretched and flexible places to meet parental demand in Surreythe local authority. The Provider provider should also publish their admissions criteria and ensure clear and transparent make information about their offer and admissions criteria is available to parents at the point the child first accesses provision at their setting (through publicity materials, website)setting. 6.6 8.3 Providers can define should submit information about their setting to the maximum number local authority through the Online Forms section of the Online Provider Portal and should be completed termly. Where providers have given permission, this information will be supplied to parents/carers looking for childcare. 8.4 To claim funding for a child, the provider must have a completed Parent Declaration Form for every child, clearly identifying how the funded hours that they will offer in a session or dayare to be allocated. For three and four-year-old children, but this information must be made clear to parents within include details on the provider’s charging policy allocation of the ‘universal’ (first 15) hours and website where applicablethe additional 15 funded hours Working Families for qualifying children. 6.7 Parents must be asked to sign confirming that they have read and understood the arrangements. Not all providers will be able to offer fully flexible places, but providers should work with parents to ensure that as far as possible the pattern of hours is convenient for parents’ working hours. 6.8 Providers should give parents and carers 8.5 Where a reasonable notice period where a change in timings of sessions or patterns of attendance is required. For example, if a nursery has changed ownership and the model of delivery of funded hours has been changed for pre-existing families. 6.9 Parents may choose to access their funded entitlement at child attends more than one provider or on more than one site, but at no more than two sites in one day. 6.10 Parents must complete a SCC Declaration Form 2020 each funded period with every provider that they intend to take their funded hours with, giving them consent for the provider to claim the funding on the parent’s behalf. Where the parent has not completed and signed the SCC Declaration Form 2020 upon commencement of taking their funded place at a provider, SCC reserves the right to reclaim funding paid for said child. 6.11 The SCC Declaration will be utilised as evidence in assessing where a possible duplicate, fraudulent or an over claim has been made. Parents and carers should be made aware of the implications of submitting duplicate claims, fraudulent claims and over claiming funded hours as part of your charging policy. Partnerships will be supported by SCC between: • SCC and providers i.e.: maintained nurseries & schools, Early Years PVI Providers and childminders • Providers working with other Providers, • Providers and Parents, carers • SCC and Parents, carers SCC promotes partnership working between different types of providers to offer flexible provision. 7.1 The Provider should work in partnership with parents, carers and other providers to improve provision and outcomes for children in their setting. An interactive toolkit has been developed by the Family and Childcare Trust, to help providers; set up or join a partnership, tackle the challenges joint working can bring and explore different ways of responding to the extended funded entitlement through a partnership approach and maximise the benefits of working together. You can find out further information at: xxx.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx/xxxx-00-xxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxx The Provider should discuss and work closely with parents, carers, to agree how a child’s overall needs will be met in practice when their funded entitlement is split across different providers, such as at a maintained school and childminder. 7.2 Attending more than one Provider 7.2.1 Attending term time settings only: • A child can attend just term-time settings, but the total claim must not be more than 15 hours or 30 hours a week (if eligible for the extended entitlement). If the child attends through the holidays, the maximum number of hours each week parents/carers will be less. • Parents, carers, must make it clear on the Declaration Form before the beginning of each funded period where they want to claim the funded hours. Priority will be given to the setting who submits their information first. 7.2.2 Child attending stretched and term time providers: • Where the stretched funding Provider submits their claim first, only the weekly stretched hours balance will be available for the term time setting to claim. • Where the term time only Provider submits their claim first, there will only be a balance of hours for the stretched funding Provider to claim, which means that the hours may “run out” before the end of the funded period. The Provider will need to charge the parent, carer, for any hours that are not funded. • It might be helpful for both settings to agree to work with the Funded Early Education Team to maximise funding for each provider. • A Parent, carer, may choose to pay for all of how their child’s care at your setting if they free hours are using all allocated, unless one of their funded hours at another settingthe providers is a specialist10 provider. • If a child goes is attending a specialist provider, the specialist provider must be allocated the hours first, up to both your setting 15 funded hours per week (the ‘universal’ hours for three and four-year- olds). Any remaining funded hours can then be allocated to another setting/s by the parent/carer. • If a maintained nursery class specialist provider offers more than 15 hours per week to a child, any hours above 15 will be funded at the standard hourly Nursery Education Funding rate plus the appropriate Inclusion Supplement. • Where a child is attending two or schoolmore mainstream providers, you will only be able to claim for the parent/carer can allocate the funded hours to best suit their needs, taking into account what is offered by the providers. 8.6 Providers should support parents/carers to complete the Parent Declaration Form appropriately, taking into consideration what ‘funded offer’ is available at their setting. 8.7 Parents/carers will be made aware that if a three and four-year-old child no longer qualifies for the 15 funded hours for Working Families, the child’s funded hours will be allocated as per the ‘universal’ (first 15) offer the parent/carer has indicated on the Parent Declaration Form. 10 Specialist providers include Special School Nursery Classes, carer is not using at Nursery Plus Classes, Early Years Speech and Language Units, Enhanced Early Years provision and Nursery Assessment Units. Page | 12 xxx.xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx.xx 8.8 Where providers are offering the maintained nursery class or schoolfunded entitlement on a ‘stretched’ basis (over more than 38 weeks), parents/carers should have a clear understanding of how many funded hours their child/ren will receive each week and how many weeks they will be provided over. This should be recorded accurately on the Parent Declaration Form.

Flexibility. 6.1 Providers should offer parents their funded entitlement: • Up to 15 or 30* hours a week for 38 weeks a year which equates to 570 or 1140* hours a year if stretched and offered all year round. *(for three and four-year-olds eligible for 30 hours extended entitlement). 6.2 SCC encourages providers to offer flexible packages of funded entitlement, subject to the following: • No session to be longer than 10 hours • No minimum session length (subject to requirements of registration on the Ofsted Early Years Register) • Not before 6am or after 8pm • A maximum of two sites in a single day 6.3 Providers should be aware that funded entitlement places can be delivered: • For up to 52 weeks of the year • Outside of maintained school term times • At weekends 6.4 Providers should ensure that children are able to take up their funded hours in continuous blocks and avoid artificial breaks being created throughout the day, for example over the lunch period. 6.5 The Provider provider should work with SCC and share information about the times and periods at which they are able to offer funded hours to support SCC to secure sufficient stretched and flexible places to meet parental demand in Surrey. The Provider provider should also publish their admissions criteria and ensure clear and transparent information about their offer and admissions criteria is available to parents at the point the child first accesses provision at their setting (through publicity materials, website). 6.6 Providers can define the maximum number of funded hours that they will offer in a session or day, but this information must be made clear to parents within the provider’s charging policy and website where applicable. 6.7 Parents must be asked to sign confirming that they have read and understood the arrangements. Not all providers will be able to offer fully flexible places, but providers should work with parents to ensure that as far as possible the pattern of hours is convenient for parents’ working hours. 6.8 6.7 Providers should give parents and carers a reasonable notice period where a change in timings of sessions or patterns of attendance is required. For example, if a nursery has changed ownership and the model of delivery of funded hours has been changed for pre-existing families. 6.9 6.8 Parents may choose to access their funded entitlement at more than one provider or on more than one site, but at no more than two sites in one day. 6.10 6.9 Parents must complete a SCC Declaration Form 2020 2023/24. Providers can choose whether to use the termly forms or the combined annual form which is added to and re-signed by the parent at the start of each funded period with period. A termly or annual form must be completed for every provider that they intend the parent intends to take their child’s funded hours with, giving them consent for the provider to claim the funding on their behalf. Where parents intend to claim funded hours at more than one provider, whether this be in Surrey or not, the parent’s behalfdetails of the other provider must be included on the declaration form to ensure the correct funding is claimed at each provider. Where the parent has not completed and signed the SCC Declaration Form 2020 2023/24 upon commencement of taking their funded place at a provider, SCC reserves the right to reclaim funding paid for said child. 6.11 6.10 The SCC Declaration Form will be utilised as evidence in assessing where a possible duplicate, fraudulent or an over claim has been made. Parents and carers should be made aware of the implications of submitting duplicate claims, fraudulent claims and over claiming funded hours as part of your every provider’s charging policy. Partnerships will be supported by SCC between: • SCC and providers i.e.: maintained nurseries & schools, Early Years PVI Providers providers and childminders • Providers working with other Providersproviders, • Providers and Parentsparents, carers • SCC and Parentsparents, carers SCC promotes partnership working between different types of providers to offer flexible provision. 7.1 The Provider provider should work in partnership with parents, carers and other providers to improve provision and outcomes for children in their setting. An interactive toolkit has been developed by the Family and Childcare Trust, Trust to help providers; providers set up or join a partnership, ; tackle the challenges joint working can bring and bring; explore different ways of responding to the extended funded entitlement through a partnership approach and maximise the benefits of working together. You can find out further information at: xxx.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx/xxxx-00-xxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxx . 7.2 The Provider provider should discuss and work closely with parents, carers, to agree how a child’s overall needs will be met in practice when their funded entitlement is split across different providers, such as at a maintained school and childminder. 7.2 7.3 Attending more than one Providerprovider 7.2.1 Attending term time settings only: • 7.3.1 A child can attend just term-time settingsmore than one setting, but the total claim for funded hours must not be more than 15 hours or 30 hours a week (if eligible for the extended entitlement). If the child attends through the holidays, the maximum number of hours each week will be less. • . 7.3.2 Parents, carers, must make it clear on the SCC Declaration Form before at the beginning of each funded period where they want to claim the funded hours. Priority will be given to the setting who submits their information first. 7.2.2 Child attending stretched and term time providers: • Where 7.3.3 As of the stretched funding Provider submits their claim firstAutumn 2023 term, only the weekly stretched hours balance will be available for the term time setting to claim. • Where the term time only Provider submits their claim first, there Surrey providers will only be a balance able to claim for term-time only hours on the portal, however providers can choose to stretch the funding locally themselves and therefore may be open for more than 38 weeks. 7.3.4 Providers should clearly communicate how funding is offered at their setting, including the number of weeks that funding can be accessed and the maximum number of hours for per week that can be claimed so that parents fully understand their offer. 7.3.5 Where providers choose to stretch the stretched funding Provider to claimthemselves, which means that the hours may “run out” before the end they should keep a record of the funded hours that have been delivered. SCC suggests using The Stretched Funding tracker to show how many hours will be delivered and claimed for each child per funded period. The Provider will need tracker can be requested from the EY commissioning team via xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx.xx. 7.3.6 Where a child is taking a stretched offer and leaves part way through a funded period, the provider should ensure that the claim on the portal is correct and input a leaving date. Any remaining balance of hours must be accurate, particularly where the funding is released to charge another provider. Support with reconciliation of hours is available from the parentfunded early education team. 7.3.7 Where funded hours are shared across Surrey providers, carer, for any the names and number of hours that are not funded. • It might be helpful for both settings displayed to agree to work with these providers in the Funded Early Education Team to maximise funding Portal. However, if a child is attending another provider in a different local authority, this will not be viewable on the portal. Providers are responsible for each provider. • A Parent, carer, may choose to pay for all of their child’s care at your setting if ensuring that they are using all of their funded hours not overclaiming for a child where they are also in attendance at another setting. • , where overclaims do occur, the provider will be invoiced by SCC. 7.3.8 If a child goes to both your setting and a maintained nursery class or schoolschool and an additional provider, you the additional provider will only be able to claim for the funded hours that the parent, carer is not using at the maintained nursery class or school.

Flexibility. 6.1 Providers should offer parents their funded entitlement: • Up to 15 or 30* hours a week for 38 weeks a year which equates to 570 or 1140* hours a year if stretched and Provision must be offered all year round. *(for three and four-year-olds eligible for 30 hours extended entitlement). 6.2 SCC encourages providers to offer flexible packages of funded entitlement, subject to within the following: • No session to be longer than 10 hours • No minimum session length (subject to requirements of registration national parameters on the Ofsted Early Years Register) • Not before 6am or after 8pm • A maximum of two sites flexibility as set out in a single day 6.3 Providers should be aware that funded entitlement places can be delivered: • For up to 52 weeks Section A2 of the year “Early Education and Childcare Statutory guidance for Local Authorities” (issued June 2018 or such subsequent versions of the guidance as may be published by the Department for Education). • Outside of maintained school term times • At weekends 6.4 Providers should ensure that children are able to take up their funded hours in continuous blocks and avoid artificial breaks being created throughout the day, for example over the lunch period. 6.5 The Provider should work with SCC the Local Authority and share information about the times and periods at which they are able to offer funded hours Early Years Funding to support SCC the Local Authority to secure sufficient stretched and flexible places to meet parental demand in Surreythe Local Authority. The Provider should also publish their admissions criteria and ensure clear and transparent make information about their offer and admissions criteria is available to parents at the point the child first accesses provision at their setting. • The Provider shall adhere to the following requirements relating to sessions they propose to offer: i. No funded session can be longer than 10 hours ii. There is no minimum session length (subject to the requirements of registration on the Ofsted Early Years Register) iii. Funded sessions cannot operate before 6.00am or after 8.00pm iv. Funding is limited to one setting (through publicity materials, website).only for 2 year olds 6.6 Providers can define the v. Funding is limited to a maximum number of funded hours that they will offer in a session or day, but this information must be made clear to parents within the provider’s charging policy and website where applicable. 6.7 Parents must be asked to sign confirming that they have read and understood the arrangements. Not all providers will be able to offer fully flexible places, but providers should work with parents to ensure that as far as possible the pattern of hours is convenient for parents’ working hours. 6.8 Providers should give parents and carers a reasonable notice period where a change in timings of sessions or patterns of attendance is required. For example, if a nursery has changed ownership and the model of delivery of funded hours has been changed for pre-existing families. 6.9 Parents may choose to access their funded entitlement at more than one provider or on more than one site, but at no more than two sites in one day.a single day for 3 and 4 year olds 6.10 Parents must complete vi. Providers may consider offering funded places: - o over a SCC maximum of 52 weeks of the year o outside of school term times o at weekends • The Provider/parent contract is to be drawn up between the main Provider and the parent using the Parent Declaration Form 2020 each funded period with every provider that they intend in appendix 1. Where a second Provider is used to take their funded hours withsupport the delivery of the child’s Early Years Funding, giving them consent for the provider to claim the funding 2nd provider’s written agreement must be obtained on the parent’s behalf. Where form in appendix 1 by the parent has not completed and returned to the main provider. • A signed the SCC copy of this Parent Declaration Form 2020 upon commencement of taking their funded place at a provider, SCC reserves the right to reclaim funding paid for said child. 6.11 The SCC Declaration will be utilised as evidence in assessing where a possible duplicate, fraudulent or an over claim has been made. Parents and carers should be made aware of the implications of submitting duplicate claims, fraudulent claims and over claiming funded hours as part of your charging policy. Partnerships will be supported by SCC between: • SCC and providers i.e.: maintained nurseries & schools, Early Years PVI Providers and childminders • Providers working with other Providers, • Providers and Parents, carers • SCC and Parents, carers SCC promotes partnership working between different types of providers to offer flexible provision. 7.1 The Provider should work in partnership with parents, carers and other providers to improve provision and outcomes for children in their setting. An interactive toolkit has been developed by the Family and Childcare Trust, to help providers; set up or join a partnership, tackle the challenges joint working can bring and explore different ways of responding to the extended funded entitlement through a partnership approach and maximise the benefits of working together. You can find out further information at: xxx.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx/xxxx-00-xxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxx The Provider should discuss and work closely with parents, carers, to agree how a child’s overall needs will be met in practice when their funded entitlement is split across different providers, such as at a maintained school and childminder. 7.2 Attending more than one Provider 7.2.1 Attending term time settings only: • A child can attend just term-time settings, but the total claim must not be more than 15 hours or 30 hours a week (if eligible for the extended entitlement). If the child attends through the holidays, the maximum number of hours each week will be less. • Parents, carers, must make it clear on the Declaration Form before the beginning of each funded period where they want to claim the funded hours. Priority will be given to the setting who submits parent for their information first. 7.2.2 Child attending stretched information. The original copies should be held by the main provider for audit purposes and term time providers: • Where by the stretched funding Provider submits their claim first, only the weekly stretched hours balance will be available Local Authority for the term time setting to claima period of 6 years. • Where Providers who open for less than 38 weeks of the term time only Provider submits year should make parents aware that they can take up the rest of their claim first, there will only be a balance entitlement with another Provider. • Parents can take up their child’s funded place in patterns of hours for the stretched funding Provider to claim, which means that the “stretch” their child’s entitlement by taking fewer hours may “run out” before the end a week over more weeks of the funded period. The year, where there is Provider will need to charge the parent, carer, for any hours that are not funded. • It might be helpful for both settings to agree to work with the Funded Early Education Team to maximise funding for each providercapacity and depending on parental demand. • A Parent, carer, may choose to pay for all of their child’s care at your setting if they are using all of their funded hours at another setting. • If a child goes to both your setting and a maintained nursery class or school, you will only be able to claim for the funded hours that the parent, carer stretched offer is not using at the maintained nursery class or schooldiscretion of the Provider. Stretched offer guidance is available through the Liverpool Early Years Provider Portal.

Flexibility. 6.1 Providers should offer parents their funded entitlement: • Up 8.1 KCC acting through The Education People wants to 15 or 30* hours a week for 38 weeks a year which equates to 570 or 1140* hours a year if stretched and offered all year round. *(for three and four-year-olds eligible for 30 hours extended entitlement). 6.2 SCC encourages providers to offer flexible packages of funded entitlement, subject to the following: • No session to be longer than 10 hours • No minimum session length (subject to requirements of registration on the Ofsted Early Years Register) • Not before 6am or after 8pm • A maximum of two sites in a single day 6.3 Providers should be aware that funded entitlement places can be delivered: • For up to 52 weeks of the year • Outside of maintained school term times • At weekends 6.4 Providers should ensure that children are able to take up their funded full entitlement to Free Early Education at times that best support their learning and development, and at times which fit with the needs of parents to enable them to work or increase their hours of work if they wish to do so. Evidence shows that continuous provision is in the best interests of the child. Where it is reasonably practicable KCC, acting through The Education People will ensure that children are able to take up their free hours in continuous blocks and avoid artificial breaks being created throughout the day, for example over the lunch periodperiod or midway through a morning or afternoon session. 6.5 8.2 The Provider Education People will encourage effective partnership working between providers from all sectors to ensure maximum flexibility for parents and their children. Providers will be encouraged to offer flexible packages of free hours with: • no session longer than 10 hours • no minimum session length (subject to the requirements of registration on the Ofsted Early Years Register) • no session commencing before 6.00am or finishing after 8.00pm • children accessing no more than two sites in a single day. 8.3 Although parents can split their Free Entitlement between multiple providers, continuity of care is important for the child. Providers should work with SCC be mindful of the impact that multiple provision could have on a child’s learning, development and wellbeing. 8.4 The Education People will provide information for both providers and parents to explain there is no requirement that free places must be taken on or delivered on particular days of the week or at particular times of the day, providing they are between the hours of 6.00am and 8.00pm. 8.5 The Education People will provide information for both providers and parents to explain there is no requirement for providers to offer 30 hours in order to receive funding to deliver universal Free Early Education and that providers are free to choose not to deliver Free Early Education places at all. 8.6 Where a child is accessing Free Early Education at more than one provider, a Parental Declaration Form must be completed by the parents at both settings to show the total number of universal and/or extended hours the child will be accessing at each provision. 8.7 Providers must share information with The Education People about the times and periods at which they are able to offer funded hours Free Early Education to support SCC KCC acting through The Education People to secure sufficient stretched and flexible places to meet parental demand in Surreydemand. 8.8 Providers must ensure that their patterns of hours, during which free places are offered are clear and accessible for parents. Providers must publish their standalone 15 and 30 hour patterns to enable parents to make an informed decision on where to access their entitlement. 8.9 Providers should have a written agreement with all parents that take up a Free Early Education place. The Provider should also publish their admissions criteria and ensure clear and transparent information about their offer and admissions criteria is available to parents at the point the child first accesses provision at their setting (through publicity materials, website). 6.6 Providers Parental Declaration Form can define the maximum number of funded hours that they will offer in a session or daybe such an agreement, but this information must be made clear to signed by parents within before providers claim funding for the provider’s charging policy child5. Any fees should be clearly set out in a Fee Structure that shows how Free Early Education is delivered and website where applicableany additional charges for optional activities outside the Free Entitlement. 6.7 Parents 8.10 Free Early Education can be offered over 38 weeks or up to 52 weeks as a ‘stretched’ offer whereby fewer weekly hours are spread over more weeks to produce the same annualised total entitlement for Free Early Education hours. Bank Holidays cannot form part of the Free Early Education hours and providers cannot include inset/training days in their funded pattern. If a funded day falls on a bank holiday, an alternative session must be asked to sign confirming that they have read and understood the arrangements. Not all providers will offered. 8.11 Where providers’ premises are used for polling stations, every effort should be able made to offer fully flexible placesalternative sessions, but providers should work with parents to ensure that as far as possible the pattern of hours is convenient for parents’ working hours. 6.8 Providers should give parents and carers a reasonable notice period where a change in timings of sessions or patterns of attendance is required. For example, if a nursery has changed ownership and the model of delivery of funded hours has been changed for pre-existing families. 6.9 Parents may choose to access their funded entitlement at more than one provider or on more than one site, but at no more than two sites in one day. 6.10 Parents must complete a SCC Declaration Form 2020 each funded period with every provider that they intend to take their funded hours with, giving them consent for the provider to claim the funding on the parent’s behalf. Where the parent has not completed and signed the SCC Declaration Form 2020 upon commencement of taking their funded place at a provider, SCC reserves the right to reclaim funding paid for said child. 6.11 The SCC Declaration will be utilised as evidence in assessing where a possible duplicate, fraudulent or an over claim has been made. Parents and carers should be made aware of the implications of submitting duplicate claims, fraudulent claims and over claiming funded hours as part of your charging policy. Partnerships will be supported by SCC between: • SCC and providers i.e.: maintained nurseries & schools, Early Years PVI Providers and childminders • Providers working with other Providers, • Providers and Parents, carers • SCC and Parents, carers SCC promotes partnership working between different types of providers to offer flexible provision. 7.1 The Provider should work in partnership with parents, carers and other providers to improve provision and outcomes for children in their setting. An interactive toolkit has been developed by the Family and Childcare Trust, to help providers; set up or join a partnership, tackle the challenges joint working can bring and explore different ways of responding to the extended funded entitlement through a partnership approach and maximise the benefits of working together. You can find out further information at: xxx.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx/xxxx-00-xxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxx The Provider should discuss and work closely with parents, carers, to agree how a child’s overall needs will be met in practice when their funded entitlement is split across different providers, such as at a maintained school and childminder. 7.2 Attending more than one Provider 7.2.1 Attending term time settings only: • A child can attend just term-time settings, but the total claim must not be more than 15 hours or 30 hours a week (if eligible for the extended entitlement). If the child attends through the holidays, the maximum number of hours each week will be less. • Parents, carers, must make it clear on the Declaration Form before the beginning of each funded period where they want to claim the funded hours. Priority will be given to the setting who submits their information first. 7.2.2 Child attending stretched and term time providers: • Where the stretched funding Provider submits their claim first, only the weekly stretched hours balance will be available for the term time setting to claim. • Where the term time only Provider submits their claim first, there will only be a balance of hours for the stretched funding Provider to claim, which means that the hours may “run out” before the end of the funded period. The Provider will need to charge the parent, carer, for any hours that are not funded. • It might be helpful for both settings to agree to work with the Funded Early Education Team to maximise funding for each provider. • A Parent, carer, may choose to pay for all of their child’s care at your setting penalised financially if they are using all of their funded hours at another settingunable to do so. • If Other closures due to circumstances beyond a child goes provider’s control should be notified to both your setting MI and a maintained nursery class or school, you will only The Education People otherwise funding may need to be able to claim for the funded hours that the parent, carer is not using at the maintained nursery class or schoolreturned.