Free services for childcare providers

• Advertising your childcare service to parents for free
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• Business, Training and Accreditation Mentors (BTAMs)
  - a free service to all childcare providers.
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• Childcare vacancy update form
  - update your childcare place vacancies by web form.

• Childcare Brokerage Service - help for families struggling to find childcare.

• Completing the Ofsted self-evaluation form - guidance
  - guidance page on Ofsted's web site.
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• Early Years Funding education grant claim forms
  
  
• Directory of Providers Pack 2011 -

       Section A - Eligibility (PDF,22.4kb) 
        Section B - Conditions for Inclusion in the Directory (PDF,31.4kb)
        Section C - Funding and Payment (PDF, 44.4kb)
        Section D - Audit arrangements (PDF, 26.3kb)
       
* Section E -  Appendix (PDF,18kb) - Securing and sustaining high quality Early Years Foundation Stage provision for children/families.(PDF,50kb)

Section F - The Inclusion of all children in the Early Years settings (PDF, 25.3)                                                    

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• * Guidance on attendance patterns for children who are not of Compulsory Schools Age (PDF,29.7kb)
  
  
• Extended Schools key documents and resources
  - you can download a booklet for anyone interested in setting up childcare in a school.
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• Publications
  - order or download our promotional publications from this web site.
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• Quality Improvement Framework booklet
  
  
• Inclusion help and support 
  
  
• Suffolk Children First
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• Safe Recruitment booklet (PDF, 603kb)
  - best practice guidance for Ofsted early years, childcare and playwork settings.

* New or updated documents recently added Feb 2012