Opening or Expanding a Wraparound Provision

Find out how to open or expand a wraparound provision.

Wraparound care is offered through breakfast clubs and after school clubs, and sometimes holiday clubs, expanding childcare at either end of the school day. There are many benefits to wraparound childcare, for children, families and schools. These can vary by school and circumstances, but may include:

Enabling parents to work or study
Supporting vulnerable children
Offering enriching activities that children enjoy
Attracting parents to the school
Supporting a soft start to the school day and attendance
Investing fees into the school or community facilities

How to Become a Wraparound Provider

There are many ways to offer wraparound care across Doncaster. By becoming a childminder and offering childcare services to school-age children, you could provide a drop off and pick up service to a local school or group of schools. You could also offer wraparound from a nursery provision catering for the needs of families with both Early Years and school-aged children. In Doncaster, we have many different delivery models for Wraparound, including childminders who offer their service on a school site, or Private, Voluntary and Independent (PVI) Providers who link directly with a school to offer breakfast and after-school club provision either on or off school site.

Read the statutory guidance for wraparound providers: Wraparound childcare: guidance for schools and trusts in England

The Wraparound Toolkit

Childcare Works have created a toolkit which contains information on how to start, grow and sustain a wraparound childcare business.

The resources are split into six categories:

Business Planning
Running of Your Childcare Provision
Business Growth
Leadership and Management
Partnership Working
SEND and Inclusive Practice

Resources listed are available free of charge, with information collated from childcare membership organisations, Government and Government funded organisations, banks, and specialist organisations.

View the Wraparound Toolkit

Wraparound Expansion Programme - Funding for Your Setting

Funding is currently available for schools, trusts, PVI (Private, Voluntary and Independent) providers and childminders. Whether you have an existing wraparound provision and looking to expand the number of places you offer, or whether you want to set up a new wraparound provision, City of Doncaster Council can help. If you want to find out more, please contact Kirsty Hanberry, Wraparound and Sufficiency Manager by emailing Kirsty.Hanberry@doncaster.gov.uk or calling 07483366623.

Working in Wraparound

Wraparound provision is expanding across Doncaster! Through the wraparound expansion programme, City of Doncaster Council has helped to create over one thousand new and expanded breakfast and after school places, supporting the needs of working parents. This means that many schools, private nurseries and childminders may be looking to recruit to help them delivers these new services. Learn more about becoming a playworker.

Playworker roles and other roles within wraparound can be found on the DWP Find a Job website.