Section 2 Registration Details – A GUIDE TO COMPLETING THE Your setting must be registered with APPLICATION FORM FOR CSSIW. Please provide details. Sustainability Grant Section 3- Supporting organisation This guide takes you through each of Please give details of any umbrella the sections on the application form. If organisations that you may be a you need more help, please contact member of or who you receive support your local umbrella organisation from. E.g. PACEY or other representative. Section 4 Previous applications for – Introduction a sustainability grant Who can apply? Please provide details Childminders registered with the Care and Social Services Inspectorate for Section 5 Why a sustainability grant – Wales (CSSIW), within the Vale of is required. Glamorgan currently providing childcare for children between the We require 3 months of your most ages of 0-14 years (copy of CSSIW recent income/expenditure information registration certificate must be provided). Section 6 - Child protection Those settings not eligible Tell us what measures you have to Those settings who were late returning safeguard children in your care e.g. or failed to complete an acceptable Disclosure and barring service checks, end of grant report during 2016/17 protection training undertaken. Tell us how you monitor concerns Childminders who are classed as regarding protection and who is at time of application or ‘suspended’ responsible for child protection issues who are in the process of setting up a which may arise. provision, will not be eligible for a grant Section 7 Declarations & signatures – Those who submit their application The main contact must be the main after the closing date contact in Section 1. What can be applied for? Section 8 Authorisation – The grant is intended to be used for membership and insurance and to And finally help support and develop good quality Check each Section is complete. provision. This may be achieved by applying to do a Quality Assurance In order to minimise any delays in scheme. processing the grants, applicants are requested to ensure that all the Section 1 Details of setting. – essential information is correctly completed on the form. Once the form The main contact person must be has been completed the applicant someone who can talk about the must then sign to confirm who carried application in detail. out the check.
A GUIDE TO COMPLETING THE APPLICATION FORM FOR Sustainability Grant This guide takes you through each of the sections on the application form. If you need more help, please contact your local umbrella organisation representative. Introduction Who can apply? Childminders registered with the Care and Social Services Inspectorate for Wales (CSSIW), within the Vale of Glamorgan currently providing childcare for children between the ages of 0-14 years (copy of CSSIW registration certificate must be provided). Those settings not eligible Those settings who were late returning or failed to complete an acceptable end of grant report during 2016/17 Childminders who are classed as ‘suspended’ at time of application or who are in the process of setting up a provision, will not be eligible for a grant Those who submit their application after the closing date What can be applied for? The grant is intended to be used for membership and insurance and to help support and develop good quality provision. This may be achieved by applying to do a Quality Assurance scheme. Section 1 – Details of setting. The main contact person must be someone who can talk about the application in detail. Section 2 – Registration Details Your setting must be registered with CSSIW. Please provide details. Section 3- Supporting organisation Please give details of any umbrella organisations that you may be a member of or who you receive support from. E.g. PACEY or other Section 4 – Previous applications for a sustainability grant Please provide details Section 5 – Why a sustainability grant is required. We require 3 months of your most recent income/expenditure information Section 6 - Child protection Tell us what measures you have to safeguard children in your care e.g. Disclosure and barring service checks, protection training undertaken. Tell us how you monitor concerns regarding protection and who is responsible for child protection issues which may arise. Section 7 – Declarations & signatures The main contact must be the main contact in Section 1. Section 8 – Authorisation And finally Check each Section is complete. In order to minimise any delays in processing the grants, applicants are requested to ensure that all the essential information is correctly completed on the form. Once the form has been completed the applicant must then sign to confirm who carried out the check.
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