See what others are saying about the wraparound programme and the support they’ve received
Manor After School and Kids Klubs
The Wrap Around funding has been the greatest opportunity for 15 years.
The Revenue grant has allowed us to expand to include a further two schools, as well as creating 3 new part time jobs for local people. The Capital Grant is the first of it's kind that MASKK has been able to access and once the work is completed it will transform our setting and how we work and function. The physical improvements will not only increase capacity but also make the setting more adaptable and inviting for children, including new quieter and softer areas for those who need it.
The funding for the support has also been amazing and for the first time in 15 years we feel like we have support! We have Out of School Alliance to call up on and access their large range of templates and fact sheets. Our leadership team have benefitted from the OOSA Academy, it has changed our supervisions and we plan to make use of the marketing training and more once our physical capacity increases to help us fill the new spaces.
All together this programme has had a profound impact on MASKK, our future is looking more secure from the income the additional spaces will eventually generate.
Lydgate Infant School
We were excited to hear details of the DfE Wraparound Expansion Initiative last academic year, as we had already been thinking about the possibility of expanding our current school-led Breakfast Club provision here in school. Following the establishment of morning Wraparound Care at the school a few years ago, demand for places had steadily consolidated as parents and carers gradually built their confidence in the sustainability of the care, and thought about their future work and other commitments with this Wraparound provision in mind.
As a result, the school’s originally established 24 pupil-place Breakfast Club was experiencing higher and higher demand, and was at capacity for an increasing proportion of the week, with potential bookings often unable to be placed.
Although we therefore wished to look at further expansion, like many settings the financial budgetary pressure on the school meant that we had limited capacity to commit the funding which would be required over the short- to medium-term to make such an expansion possible and eventually arrive at a self-sustaining increased capacity in the longer term, both sustainable to the school and of obvious value to the school’s community.
Through engagement with the DfE’s Wraparound Expansion Initiative, managed and led locally by Sheffield City Council, the school has been able to access the necessary funding and support (through bespoke and really helpful support through SWASH) to make this expansion a reality. Following an initial application process facilitated by the LA, we are now in a position in which we are incrementally increasing our morning Wraparound capacity over the course of 2024/25 on a termly basis by an additional 8 pupils per term (already achieved for Autumn 2024), with a goal of doubling our overall capacity by the end of the academic year from 24 pupil places to 48 pupils places at our morning Wraparound provision each day.
The current Wraparound Expansion Initiative provides a straightforward, funded and fully supported vehicle for any setting considering the establishment or expansion of Wraparound provision, either before the start or at the end of the school day, and the school would strongly encourage engagement with the initiative as part of any such development.
