The National Wraparound Childcare Programme is part of the childcare reforms announced at the 2023 Spring Budget. The government’s ambition is that by 2026, all parents and carers of primary school-aged children (5 to 11 years old) who need it will have access to term-time childcare in their local area. This childcare should be accessible from 8:00am to 6:00pm.

Wraparound childcare provides families with care for school ages children before and after the school day.

As part of the wraparound programme in West Sussex, we want to understand the level of demand for all children, including those with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).

Why We Are Consulting
This consultation seeks views on how wraparound childcare provision works for you and your family.
Specific aspects that we would welcome your views on are:

• how places are being accessed
• provision for children with special education needs and disabilities
• how access to wraparound childcare provision has impacted families.

The survey is anonymous and all answers will be kept confidential. The deadline to complete this survey is 11.59pm on Sunday 22 February.

Privacy/Data protection notice

The Early Years and Childcare team will use this questionnaire to collect personal and special category data the processing of which is necessary to enable us to be compliant with the law (general well-being duties), and for reasons of substantial public interest. The data will be processed in accordance with the 2018 Data Protection Act, the General Data Protection Regulations, and any subsequent data protection legislation. The data we collect be securely stored and kept for period of up to 3 years before being appropriately destroyed. The data we will collect will not be used for any other purpose than that stated above without your prior written consent. West Sussex County Council is registered as Data Controller (Reg. No. Z6413427). For further details and information about our Data Controller, please see our Privacy Policy (opens in new window).

Alternative formats and accessibility

If you require any of the information for this project in an alternative format, please telephone us on 01243 777807 or via email at family.info.service@westsussex.gov.uk and we will do our best to assist you. If you are deaf or hard of hearing and have a BT Relay UK app (opens in new window) installed on your computer, tablet, laptop or smartphone, you can contact us on 18001 01243 777807. The BT Relay UK app has now replaced the NGT texting app.

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