Childcare Sufficiency Assessment (CSA)

From the 1st April 2008 local authorities have a duty to secure sufficient childcare to enable parents to work, or to undertake education and training leading to work.

To fulfill this duty, local authorities will help shape the childcare market in response to what parents need.

We now need to undertake a completed update of the CSA to understand what has changed since 2008.

We will be collecting information from parents, childcare providers, children and employers to feed into the report from April 2010 to July 2010 through questionnaires, focus groups and meetings. The final report will be published in April 2011.

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Main findings from the 2008 childcare sufficiency assessment

The main findings from the information collected in the CSA are

more affordable childcare for families on low incomes
more holiday provision for all ages
more places, facilities and trained staff for those children with special educational needs or disabilities
more flexible childcare arrangements in terms of time and cost
more affordable under three full-time provision
easier access to before and after school provision for all primary school aged children
increase the awareness of 0-19 services available in each ward
review and rationalisation of childcare places available for 0-14 year olds

The full childcare sufficiency report can be viewed in the attached files section below.

We will keep the CSA under review and prepare a new assessment at intervals not exceeding three years. We have also drawn up an Action Plan which sets out how we will address some of the main findings of the CSA. The Action Plan was approved by the Council’s Cabinet on the 21 July 2009, and is the first of annual action plans that will address the gaps that we identify in the provision of childcare across the borough. The Action Plan is under the attached files section below.

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Attached files


File name	File type	Size
Chapter 1 - executive summary.pdf	PDF	527K
Chapter 2 - introduction.pdf	PDF	23K
Chapter 3 - profile of Haringey.pdf	PDF	49K
Chapter 4 - children and families in Haringey.pdf	PDF	513K
Chapter 5 - work and economic activity.pdf	PDF	26K
Chapter 6 - housing developments.pdf	PDF	15K
Chapter 7 - supply of childcare for children under the age of five.pdf	PDF	813K
Chapter 8 - supply of childcare for children over the age of five.pdf	PDF	488K
Chapter 9 - views of parents and carers.pdf	PDF	139K
Chapter 10 - views of employers.pdf	PDF	11K
Chapter 11 - views of childcare providers.pdf	PDF	44K
Chapter 12 - gap analysis.pdf	PDF	167K
CSA Action Plan.pdf	PDF	52K