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Early Years and Childcare

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Find Childcare

Find a nursery, crèche, childminder, day nursery or other Ofsted-registered childcare provider

Childminding

How to find or become a childminder in West Berkshire

Family Hubs

  1. Central Family Hub
  2. East Family Hub
  3. West Family Hub

Ask Our Family Information Service a Question

Information for parents, parents to be, carers and professionals to help support children

Financial help for childcare

  1. Free childcare for two-year-olds
  2. Free childcare for 3 and 4 year olds
  3. Get extra funding for your childcare provider
  4. 30 hours and tax free childcare

Early years funding for childcare providers

  1. Registering for early years funding
  2. Using the Early Years Funding Portal
  3. Early years funding rates
  4. Disability Access Fund: guidance for early years providers

Family Information Service (FIS)

Information for parents, parents to be, carers and professionals to help support children

Educational Support for Ethnic Minority and Traveller Children

Educational and language support for children from ethnic minority or Roma, Gypsy or traveller backgrounds

Childcare Sufficiency Assessment 2021

View our childcare sufficiency assessment document, providing an overview of the childcare provision in West Berkshire.

SEND Toolkit for Early Years

  1. Sensory and Physical Need
  2. Cognition and Learning
  3. Behaviour and emotion
  4. Communication language & speech

A Flying Start with Letters and Sounds

A Flying Start with Letters and Sounds is a multi-sensory, systematic, synthetic phonics programme.

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