Project to find innovative approaches to early years partnerships.
What the buyer wrote
The Government is aware of the challenges parents face with childcare, particularly with costs and finding a suitable place. The Government has made a clear its intention to reform early years provision and this can be seen through its manifesto commitment to give 30 hours of funded childcare to working parents of three and four year olds by 2017. This will not be without its challenges and there will be a need for more places, and more flexibility and partnership working in the childcare market in order to deliver this commitment. For some time, the Government has encouraged partnerships between schools and third party providers for early years provision. Where schools are not able or …
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Details
- What the buyer calls it
- Project to find innovative approaches to early years partnerships.
- How they are buying
- Advertised, open to anyoneAny supplier could bid without being invited first.
- Type
- services
- Suitable for small firms
- The buyer says yes. What that is worth
- Work starts
- 31 Mar 2016
- Work ends
- 31 Jul 2016
Who the buyer named
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