To approve the annual  childcare sufficiency report for 2019-2020.  This report sets out key data about childcare provision in Herefordshire and areas for future development in the context of changing national policy and requirements, and local demography.  It provides a strategic overview within which the council, schools, and private and voluntary providers can develop services for the benefit of children and their parents.

That

the childcare sufficiency report and actions for 2019-2020 be approved.

The council has a a statutory duty to support parents to access employment and training and ensure there is sufficient, flexible childcare across the county to enable them to do this. The recommendations in the childcare sufficiency report itself could be amended, providing any amendments