30 Hours Funded Childcare – Parent Information
This page has information about 30 hours funded childcare and how as a parent, you can use your allocated funding.

Somerset’s Local Offer
A site for both providers and parents, it lists all of the childcare services that Somerset provides to help you find the right care for you and your family. Includes Somerset’s Local Offer.

Somerset Partnerships – Parent Carer Toolkit
With the help of Somerset parents and carers, Somerset Partnerships have created a toolkit which has lots of information to support parents and carers with the job of ‘being a parent’.

Somerset Skills and Learning
SS&L is a vibrant staff-led Social Enterprise, which delivers a wide range of education services to young people and adults across Somerset.

Early Years Alliance
A page for both providers and parents, the Early Years Alliance is the largest and most representative early years membership organisation in England.

Somerset Play Forum
A page for both providers and parents, Somerset Play Forum works to support play provision across Somerset.

PACEY
A charity dedicated to supporting everyone working in childcare and early years to provide high quality care and early learning for children and families. They have a great section designed specifically for parents.

Pathways to School Readiness Toolkit
This useful toolkit has been produced by the School Readiness Working Party to support practitioners in schools and early years settings in preparing children for the transitions that they need to make in their early years.

Ofsted
Ofsted is the Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills.

Dillington Advertising Services
Dillington Advertising Services is a recognised advertising agency. They are specialists in public sector recruiting but offer advertising services to other sectors.

Somerset Safeguarding Children Partnership
The Somerset Safeguarding Children Partnership have a statutory duty to co-ordinate how agencies work together to safeguard and promote the wellbeing of children and young people in Somerset.