Issue details

Enfield faces new and significant challenges in meeting statutory duties and obligations under the Childcare Act 2006, and in meeting new government targets for nursery provision, particular in providing places for up to 1,316 disadvantaged two-year-olds from September 2013, and improving the take up rate of the free entitlement for three- and four-year-olds.

In order therefore to increase the number of places available, it is proposed that from September 2013, the nine Children Centres nurseries in the borough change their model, providing predominantly free entitlement funded places for two, three- and four-year-olds and working with families with under 2’s to secure places with other high quality providers within the locality.