If you deliver the free early years entitlement, then from September 2010 you will be expected to provide a flexible 15-hour offer. But how should this operate? If flexibility is to work for children, parents and you as a provider, then it is vital you share your views as part of the DCSF's discussion paper on the flexible entitlement.
The paper proposes that local authorities will create 'local agreements' with providers for a flexible offer within the confines of national parameters. The parameters include how the offer must be taken over a minimum of three days, and delivered by a maximum of two providers.
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