Carry-On Playing looked at ways of sustaining the children’s
play and childcare sector through projects that examined the ways of helping
to support and maintain schemes through social enterprise:
Enterprising
Play addressed social enterprise approaches to sustainability.
Private sector ‘can-do’ allied with voluntary sector commitment
to meeting social aims worked in other sectors – could it work
for childcare and the play sector? Limited short-term funding stifles
long-term planning and improvement, but generating income gives you
control over what you do.
4Children’s Voluntary
Management Committee Toolkit is an excellent resource - user-friendly
and tailored to the specific needs of small service providers. It
allows people to access information and training opportunities in
their local area, which enhance and sustain the work of their voluntary
management committees.
London Play’s Quality
In Play toolkit is a quality assurance scheme for children's play
providers. It is based on assumptions and values from the NVQ occupational
standards, Article 31 of the UN convention on the rights of the child,
and research on play in child development.
Social
Enterprise London’s and Suffolk
Social Care Services’ Childcare Consortium Models looked
at ways of establishing a collection of services and networks of existing
childcare providers in order to ensure future sustainability.
Big Wide Talk’s Playing
With Words project researched the potential of the project’s
local community groups to develop social enterprise to increase their
sustainability.
