This guidance relates to children from reception up to year 6.A guidance document has been provided for schools:  Wraparound childcare: guidance for schools and trusts in England (publishing.service.gov.uk) February 2024 The government’s expectation is that schools and trusts work with the local authority and others in the sector, to identify how they can support parents to access wraparound childcare.

The Local Authority collects data to assess the existing wraparound provision and look at gap analysis to understand what needs to be achieved to deliver the government’s ambition that all parents who need childcare should have access to provision by 2026      

• The Local Authority has a duty to ensure there are sufficient childcare places for parents and will support schools and trusts to:
  • Understand the current wraparound childcare market supply and demand 
  • Understand options to meet unmet demand 
  • Respond to parental requests made under the Right to request guidance  
  • Support the setting up of new provision or expansion and extension of existing provision. 

• Buckinghamshire welcomes mixed models of delivery such as:  
  • School run provision 
  • Third party providers on a school site 
  • Childminders who pick up from specific schools 
  • Childminders operating for 50% of their time offsite 
  • Preschools and Day Nurseries able to offer out of school/wraparound care 
  • Developing a cluster model with a combination of providers supporting a school
  • Developing a community model with one provider supporting a community of local schools
  • Third party provider off site with a ‘walking bus’ for children, to and from school  
  • Signposting where there is no viable option of offering services from the school site