What is the Childcare Sufficiency Assessment (CSA)?
The Childcare Act 2006 requires all Local Authorities to conduct a Childcare Sufficiency Assessment (CSA), to gain a clear understanding of their local childcare market. The assessment is split into 3 sections:
- Demand - The type of childcare parents and children want, when they want it and where they want it.
- Supply – what types of childcare are available, when and where.
- Mapping Supply to Demand – the gaps between what is available and what parents need.
Together the three sections form Leicester’s Childcare Sufficiency Assessment which in turn will form the basis of a Childcare Sufficiency Plan which will set out the priorities of the Authority and its partners for sustaining existing good quality provision and extending the supply of early education and childcare.
If you have any questions regarding Leicester City Childcare Sufficiency Assessment please contact:
Leicester Children’s Information Service
12 Bishop Street
Leicester
LE1 6AF
Phone: 0116 225 4890
Freephone: 0800 952 5678
Email: early.years@leicester.gov.uk
