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Sheffield Childcare Audit – What’s Included?
The Sheffield Childcare Audit provides information about:
- Pre-school settings and places for children under 5 years
- Out of School settings and places for children aged 5-11
- Breakfast Clubs
- After School Clubs
- Holiday Play-schemes
- Childminders and places
- Crèche settings and places
- Childcare Rates (places per 100 children)
- Nursery Education settings, places and rates (places per 100 children)
- Demographic Information about children
- Population
- Special Educational Needs
- Ethnicity
- Lone Parents and Income Support
Pre-school provision is offered as full day care or sessional care and full day childcare (for full definitions see Audit – Citywide Overview). Sessional settings are playgroups or pre-school nursery groups that offer morning or afternoon care lasting less than 4 hours continuously in a day. Some sessional groups provide both morning and afternoon sessions (these include nursery classes in schools). Information regarding places at settings eligible to provide nursery education is also supplied in the audit. All 3 and 4 year olds (from the term after a child’s third birthday) are currently entitled to 5 free 2½-hour sessions per week for a minimum of 38 weeks per year. Free places can be delivered by a variety of providers in the private, voluntary, independent or maintained sectors including registered childminders.
To download the citywide and service district audits, please refer to the Sheffield Childcare Audit page
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