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      • Types of childcare
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        • Question to ask a childcare provider
      • Help paying for childcare
      • Funded early education
        • Two year olds
          • Frequently asked questions
        • Three and four year olds
        • 30 hours funded childcare
          • Grace period
          • How to apply - foster parents
        • Stretched offer
        • Early years pupil premium
        • Benefits of early education
        • Eligible age range
        • Parental declaration information
      • Early Years Foundation Stage
      • Ofsted
        • Childcare registration exemptions
        • Voluntary childcare register
      • Complaints about childcare
      • Closure support
      • Childcare sufficiency
    • Education and learning
      • Pre-school (2 - 5 years)
      • School readiness
        • Individual challenge cards
      • School aged (5 - 16 years)
        • Search for a school
        • Exclusion from school
      • College, training and employment (16+)
    • Activities
      • School holiday activities
      • Holiday activities and food programme
        • Holiday activities and food programme providers
          • Active Future Leicester
          • Aimstrong - Fullhurst
          • B-Inspired
          • Belgrave Playscheme
          • Big Local - St Matthews
          • Bridge Junior School
          • Clubszone
          • Discovery Schools Academy Trust
          • Dovelands Primary School - Parakeets
          • E2 - Beaumont Lodge
          • E2 - Boxing
          • E2 - Community Hub
          • E2 - Football
          • EMPWR Sports
          • Falcons Primary School
          • Folville Junior School
          • Football and Fitness
          • FSD Academy FC
          • GNG Football Club
          • GNR8 Academy
          • Goldhill Adventure Playground
          • Highfields Centre
          • Inspire Together
          • Kiddycare
          • Leicester City in the Community
          • Leicester Outdoor Pursuit Centre
          • Leicester Riders
          • Leicester Tigers Foundation
          • Make Change
          • Mowmacre Playground
          • New Parks Adventure Playground
          • North Mead Primary Academy
          • Premier Education
          • SFK Multisports
          • Si Sports
          • St Margaret's Pastures Sports Centre (Leicester City Hockey Club)
          • St Mary's Field Primary School
          • Super Star - Belgrave St Peters
          • Team Hub CIC
          • The What Cabin - St Matthews
          • Waterfront Sports and Education Academy
          • Wesley Hall Community Centre
          • Woodgate Adventure Playground
        • Benefits related free school meals
        • Registration form completed
        • 11 to 15 July
        • 18 to 22 July
        • 25 to 29 July
        • 1 to 5 August
        • 8 to 12 August
        • 15 to 19 August
        • 22 to 26 August
      • Disabled children activity programme
      • Leicester's Play Day
      • Adventure playgrounds
    • Parenting support
      • Parenting advice services
      • Early Help service
        • Early help offer
        • Early help assessment
        • Early help resources
      • Social care and early help support
      • Internet Safety
      • Support for dads
      • Grandparents
      • Hungry Little Minds
      • Families affected by imprisonment
    • Family finance
      • Money advice and debt support
      • Universal Credits
      • School uniform
      • May half term food offer
    • Family health
      • Pregnancy and birth
      • Healthy start vouchers
      • Speech, language and communication pathway
      • Health for Under 5s
      • Health for Teens
      • Health for kids
      • Talk Matters
      • Health support for parents
      • Early outcomes fund
      • How to wash your hands properly
      • Find a health service
  • Children's Centres
    • Get up and go!
      • Activity cards
      • Exercise for children
      • Get out and about
      • Recipe cards
      • Activity poster
      • Get up and go certificate
      • Get up and go feedback
      • Get up and Go Active!
    • Our centres
    • Timetables and activities
      • Stay and play
      • Bumps to babies for teen parents-to-be
      • Triple P
      • Learning Together Programme
      • Domestic violence group
      • Childminders group
    • Our vision
    • Welfare rights support
    • Emergency help for vulnerable families
    • Room booking
    • Contact Children's Centres
    • Health visiting team
  • SEND Local Offer
    • About SEND
      • What to do if you think your child has SEND
        • Definition of special educational needs and disability
        • Broad areas of SEN
      • Education, health and care assessment and plans
        • What is an EHC Plan
        • Request for a statutory EHC assessment
        • Statutory assessment timescale
        • Statutory assessment request decision
          • Criteria
        • Introductory meeting
        • Integrated assessment meeting
        • Resources allocation panel
        • Personal budgets
        • Implementation meeting
        • EHC plan review
          • Person centred review
        • Mediation, appeals and resolutions
          • Mediation
          • SEND Tribunal
          • Disagreement resolution
          • Complaints procedure
          • Single route of redress
        • Home to school transport
      • SEND reforms
      • SEND Strategy
      • SEND word list
    • What is the Local Offer?
    • Early years
      • Identifying SEND in the early years
      • What is expected in the early years
      • SEND and funded childcare
    • Schools and learning
      • General requirements for schools
      • Different types of special educational needs
        • General learning difficulties
        • Specific learning difficulties (Dyslexia)
          • Masters Level Qualification: Teaching and Assessing Learners with Specific Learning Difficulties (Dyslexia)
        • Specific learning difficulties (Dyspraxia)
        • Specific learning difficulties (Dyscalculia)
        • Autism
        • Speech, Language and Communication Needs (SLCN)
        • Social, emotional and mental health difficulties
        • Physical and sensory
      • School admissions - EHC plans
        • Starting school with EHC plan
        • Secondary transfer for EHC plans
          • Transition to secondary school
          • Workshop - Moving to secondary school
        • Choosing a school
      • Schools and hearing impairment
      • Schools and visual impairment
      • Designated Specialist Provision
      • Schools and colleges out of area
      • Virtual tours of SEND provisions
    • SEND Health
      • Specialist health services
      • Mental health support
        • Mental health course
      • Care navigation
      • Children's continuing care
      • Palliative care
      • Healthy Together - SEND
      • Children's speech and language therapy service
      • Annual health checks
      • Transitions in health
      • Complain about a health service
    • Care and support
      • Care, support and personal assistants
      • The Care Act
    • Preparing for adulthood
      • Moving in to adulthood
        • Transition - Introduction
        • The transition process
          • EHCP transition review
          • Person centred reviews
          • Transition assessments and accessing adult social care
          • Carer’s Assessment
          • Strengths-based practice
        • Money and finance
          • Benefits
          • Carer's allowance
          • Managing money
          • Opening a bank account
          • Direct payments
        • Legal issues
          • Parental responsibility
          • Mental Capacity Act
          • Safeguarding - SEND
          • Court of protection
          • Appointeeship
          • Deputyship
          • Lasting power of attorney
          • Marriage - Capacity and consent
        • Accommodation
        • Preparing for independence
          • Leaving home
          • Travel and transport
          • Social life
          • Getting identification
          • Marriage and independence
        • Health - Transition
          • General health services
          • Continuing healthcare
          • Children and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS)
          • Non-statutory mental health services
          • Sexual health services
        • Transition
          • Request a transition assessment
          • Things to think about
          • Leaving child services support
      • Education, learning and work
        • Education and training opportunities
      • Friends, relationships and the community
      • Independence and independent living
        • Thinking about independence
      • Planning for good health
        • Some things to think about
        • Who can help?
      • Transition easy read documents
      • Preparing for Adulthood Plan
      • Starting converstations about your future
    • Money Matters
      • Grants and allowances
      • Direct payments
    • Local Offer Live
      • Service presentations
        • Monday 24 May
        • Tuesday 25 May
        • Wednesday 26 May
        • Thursday 27 May
        • Friday 28 May
      • Meet the services
        • ADHD Solutions
        • Children's occupational therapy team
        • Ellesmere College
        • FTM Dance
        • Leicester and Leicestershire Enterprise Partnership
        • Leicestershire's Local Offer
        • Pathways
        • SENDIASS
        • Sense College Loughborough
        • Steps Conductive Education Centre
        • Values
        • D R & C Private Home Care
        • Supporting your child with reading
        • New Leaf Triangle
        • SEMH - Worries video
        • Ash Field Academy
      • Local Offer Live feedback
    • Search for services
      • Local authority services
        • Early years support
        • Learning, communication and interaction team
        • Vision support
        • Hearing support
        • Social, emotional and mental health
        • Leicester partnership school
        • City psychology service
        • Special Education Service
        • Referral for SEND support services
          • Guidance to support you when making a referral
      • School support for children with SEND
      • Support to find a service
      • NHS Trust services
      • Independent information and advice
      • Groups and clubs
    • You said, we did
    • Your voice
      • Parent Carer Forum
      • Big Mouth Forum
      • Advocacy groups
      • Mystery shopper scheme
    • Local Area Improvements
      • Transforming SEND in Leicester
    • Search MyChoice
    • Consultations and public announcements
      • Joint Health, Social Care and Education Transitions Strategy Refresh 2022-2024
      • Government SEND Review proposals
      • Capital fund for Local Offer
      • Consultation archive
        • SEND Transformation Plan - Engagement
        • SEND provision places survey
        • Transition support for young people consultation
        • SEND Strategy Consultation
        • Review of funding for pupils in mainstream schools
        • SEND Transport Policy consultation
        • Mainstream school funding for SEND
      • Joint LLR SEND Commissioning Strategy – Engagement Response
    • SEND news and events
      • SEND News
      • SEND training opportunities
      • Rix Wiki pilot scheme
      • Advertise yourself
    • Personal Transport Budget
      • Apply for travel support
      • Review and changing personal transport budgets
      • Questions about personal transport budget
  • Disabled Children
    • Short breaks
    • Taking part
    • Personal assistants
    • Disabled Children's Register
    • Support and services
      • Equipment hire
        • Equipment hire terms and conditions
      • Occupational therapy team (OT)
      • Social work support
    • Eligibility criteria
    • News and events
      • Grants and funding
      • Events and activities
      • News and information
    • Training courses
      • Independent travel training
    • Easy Read documents
  • Childcare Professionals
    • Funded early education administration
      • Provider agreement
        • Resources support
      • Notification of stretched and extended hours
    • Supporting transition
      • Top tips for supporting transition
      • Transitions - Make Connections!
    • Self update provider portal
    • Early Education Development
      • Starting a childcare business
        • How EDD team can assist you
        • Childminder
          • Childminder Agencies
          • Register as a childminder - You Tube video
        • Early years provision
        • Out of school provision
        • Home childcarer or nanny
        • Childcare on domestic premises
        • Glossary - Childcare
        • Start a childcare business enquiry form
      • Business support information
        • Market research
        • Business planning
        • Financial planning
        • Marketing
        • Sources of information
      • Tools and resources
        • Managing infectious diseases
        • Food safety advice on choking hazards
        • Increase in scarlet fever and chickenpox cases
        • World Hand Hygiene Day 2022
      • CPD opportunities
        • Pricing structure
        • Booking terms and conditions
        • EYFS 2021 training
      • EED Newsletters
      • Quality support
        • About quality support
        • Quality Improvement Framework
          • Section 1 - Safeguarding
          • Section 2 - Leadership and management
          • Section 3 - Teaching and learning
          • Section 4 - Inclusive practice
          • Section 5 - Reflective practice
          • Section 6 - School readiness
          • Section 7 - Effective business management
          • Section 8 - Policies and procedures
          • Section 9 - Healthy Living
          • Action Plan Templates
          • Quality Improvement Guidance Notes
          • Quality improvement process guide
        • Q card index
          • Safeguarding index
            • Voice of the child
          • Inclusive practice index
          • School readiness index
          • Reflective Practice Index
          • Healthy Living Index
          • Policies and procedures index
          • Leadership and management index
          • Teaching and learning index
        • Quality Forum
        • EYFS Network
          • EYFS resources - March 2021
        • Sector guidance links
        • EYFS Reforms briefing
      • Safeguarding – what you need to know
        • Safeguarding links and resources
      • The Smile Awards
    • SEND for professionals
      • Inclusive provision in Early Years
      • SEN inclusion fund
      • Disability access fund
      • SEND transfer form
      • Early Years training offer
      • Early Years Teaching Service resources
        • Structured teaching
          • TEACHH - physical structure
          • TEACHH - Scheduling
          • TEACHH - Work system
        • Social stories in early years
        • Play interaction resources
          • Play interaction games
          • What is play interaction?
          • Songs and rhymes
        • Six stages of a crisis
        • Easy read documents - Inclusive provision
        • Positive handling plan for early years
        • One page profile
    • Data collections
      • Early Years Census
      • Holiday childcare cost survey
      • CSA collection
      • Business support questionnaire
      • Provider business sustainability
    • Coronavirus updated advice
      • Report confirmed cases and closures
      • Key worker audit
      • Ministeral open letters
      • Message from Councillor Elly Cutkelvin
      • Coronavirus - What action you can take
      • Department for Education coronavirus helpline
      • Annual reviews - update
      • FAQ with responses
      • Their door is shut. Ours is open
      • Business support - tools and tips (COVID-19)
      • Return to school resources
      • Rapid test centres
      • Protecting those who are clinically extremely vulnerable
      • LFT ordering update for PVIs
      • International travel resources
      • Vaccination booster information
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Tools and resources

Support documents for childcare providers in Leicester.

  • Continuity form
  • Five steps to risk assessment leaflet
  • Five steps to risk assessment template

Other useful resources

  • Managing infectious diseases
  • Food safety advice on choking hazards

 

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