Cardiff County Council's Children and Young People's Partnership Framework

Project Manager - Brenda Davis
Ty Gwyn Teachers' Centre
Ty Gwyn School
Ty Gwyn Road
Penylan
Cardiff
CF23 5JG

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Cardiff County Children and Young Peoples Partnership aims to:

• Identify new funding solutions to enhance the Cymorth (Children and Youth Support) Fund resources to implement local childcare plans.
• To research & develop new structures for the strategic planning of childcare places in Cardiff.
• Consider long term sustainability of funding for childcare provision.

Three key pieces of research will be undertaken in Cardiff's CWLWM project:

1. This includes identifying the range of subsidies available in Wales supporting childcare services whether this be a 'Cymorth sustainability grant', tax credit subsidy or other form of funding. To compare the funding of childcare services with our transnational partners and identify any good practice models which may form an outline of options for the Welsh Assembly Government to strategically support the sustainability of Childcare Services in the future. Areas of the research will also include parental leave, maternity and paternity entitlements in each transnational partner country.
2. Developing and testing new ways of consulting parents to assess their childcare needs other than by questionnaire, through a series of focus groups facilitated by an experienced market research company. We hope to identify the most effective way of assessing the diverse childcare needs of parents within specific geographic areas of the county. In particular targeting areas of multiple deprivations, parents with children with disabilities or complex needs, parents for whom English is a second language including Welsh, young parents aged 16yrs to 25yrs and black and minority ethnic (BME) communities.
3. Working with employers to assess their employees childcare needs. Piloting a survey with Cardiff County Council employees to assess their childcare needs and supporting Cardiff County Council to develop a new Childcare Sponsored Scheme for its employees taking account of the new tax exemptions. The experience of this activity will form the basis of a set of support materials to enable other employers in the County to under-take the same exercise with their employees. A series of employer seminars will seek interest in employers being supported to establish a County wide employers childcare consortium and raise the awareness of the new tax exemptions for employer sponsored childcare schemes.
   
   From this research the research experts will train the member of the Childcare Task Group, who work together to deliver the annual targets set out in the childcare plan, to be more effective in their strategic planning methodology and activity in order to meet parents unmet and ongoing childcare needs.

Cardiff County Council’s CWLWM work will result in:

• A parent consultation (focus groups) report identifying alternative solutions to the problems of viability and sustainability in childcare provision. Download - Cardiff Parents Focus Groups Consultation Demand for Childcare 2005/06 Report
• A report on Employer Sponsored Childcare and Employer Consortiums. Download - Employee Childcare Survey Report | Download - Employer Supported Childcare Cost Benefit Analysis
• A report identifying the range of childcare subsidies, local, national and transnational. Download - Childcare Services Sustainability and Subsidies
• A review of Strategic Planning Processes for Childcare and report on good practice childcare models.

   

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