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Childcare Sufficiency Assessment

Childcare Sufficiency Team - April 2012
martin.wilby@kirklees.gov.uk

Childcare sufficiency assessment

The Childcare Act 2006 requires Local Authorities to take a strategic lead to comply with statutory duties to ensure:

  • There is sufficient childcare available for working parents and those parents training to enter work
  • There is sufficient childcare for every child to access their entitlement to free early education and care

To underpin this work, the Childcare Act 2006 states that a Childcare Sufficiency Assessment must be published, refreshed on an annual basis, and fully re-written every 3 years.

Childcare Sufficiency Assessments are in essence local childcare market research and analysis documents intended to support Local Authorities to identify priorities and manage local childcare markets. Making this information available helps enable the childcare market to manage itself and reduces the need for Council intervention.

Effective childcare markets contribute towards the Council's priorities for improving the life chances for young people (improving outcomes and reducing poverty), leading Kirklees out of recession and ensure services which are effective and productive.

Early learning and childcare strategy


The Kirklees Childcare Strategy 2008-11 (updated 2010-11) outlines how Kirklees Council will undertake their duties. A market management model summarises the approach:

Previous childcare sufficiency assessments

The first Childcare Sufficiency Assessment for Kirklees took place during 2007 and was published in March 2008. Updates and supplements were published in 2009 and 2010.

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Childcare ward profiles 2012

Opens in a new windowAlmondbury
Opens in a new windowAshbrow
Opens in a new windowBatley East
Opens in a new windowBatley West
Opens in a new windowBirkenshaw and Birstall
Opens in a new windowCleckheaton
Opens in a new windowColne Valley
Opens in a new windowCrosland Moor and Netherton
Opens in a new windowDalton
Opens in a new windowDenby Dale
Opens in a new windowDewsbury East
Opens in a new windowDewsbury South
Opens in a new windowDewsbury West
Opens in a new windowGolcar
Opens in a new windowGreenhead
Opens in a new windowHeckmondwike
Opens in a new windowHolme Valley North
Opens in a new windowHolme Valley South
Opens in a new windowKirkburton
Opens in a new windowLindley
Opens in a new windowLiversedge & Gomersal
Opens in a new windowMirfield
Opens in a new windowNewsome

Contact us

Contact for parents experiencing difficulties finding suitable childcare
Children and Family Information Service (Kirklees Direct)
Tel: 01484 414887
Email: fis@kirklees.gov.uk

Contact for reporting childcare sufficiency issues
Kirklees Childcare Sufficiency Team
Learning Service Deighton Centre
Deighton Road
Deighton Huddersfield
HD2 1JP
Email: childcare.sufficiency@kirklees.gov.uk
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