Decision details

13.1     The Lead Member considered a report by the Director of Children’s Services regarding the East Sussex Childcare Sufficiency Assessment 2020.

13.2     The Lead Member RESOLVED – to approve an extension to the period covered by the 2019/20 Childcare Sufficiency Assessment to include the 2020/21 academic year.

Reason

13.3     Due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the ability to predict how the childcare market could change the sector is in a state of flux. The current published Childcare Sufficiency Assessment 2019/20 will provide the local authority with a benchmark against which to monitor the market and provide a basis for decisions by providers and the local authority with regard to childcare provision in the future. It is proposed that a fully updated Childcare Sufficiency Assessment covering the period 2021/22 is published in the autumn of 2021.