Childcare sufficiency report 2024

Areas for action

  • continuously monitor and update Lincolnshire’s childcare delivery plan based on the sufficiency needs
  • continue to utilise the capital grant funding programme to:
    • develop places in those areas with an identified sufficiency gap
    • meet the demands from the childcare reforms
  • deliver a strategic marketing campaign to raise awareness of the career in the childcare workforce
  • complete additional analysis and outreach activities with a focus on the universal 3 and 4-year-old offer to increase the universal take-up rate
  • implement Dingley’s Promise to support the sufficiency of places for all children with SEND