London Borough of Bromley (LBB) is one of the 32 borough councils that make up the Greater London area. It is the South-Eastern-most borough which borders Kent, so it has a mix of both urban and rural areas. Although it has a population of almost 340,000 people, it has the lowest population density of all the London Boroughs.
The Problem
LBB wanted to become fully compliant with DfE Early Years national objectives to help fund more early years education across the country helping every child to be more school ready, which in turn leads to better outcomes for primary school children.
The DfE wants to increase the level of engagement with parents and give them more choice over the Early Years Education of their children by providing more on-line, self-service options to find and engage with potential education providers.
Further, there is growing objective to help Early Years Education providers manage and grow their businesses by paying them monthly, based on accurate information on child attendance all year round.
LBB Looked at the market but could find no IT supplier to deliver everything that was needed. Following this, LBB were advised by the DfE to speak to Sentinel following our work in supporting the complex Early Years needs for Birmingham City Council.
Our technology of a core Data Integration Platform supporting agile Portal Applications, is well placed to support authorities in this area and is already being used to support the exacting requirements at Birmingham.
We worked with LBB to establish their requirements and sequence of priorities, then set to work to deliver a series of short agile projects to extend our existing Early Years Funding Portal.
LBB is now leading the way with our pioneering Early Years Funding Portal. Serving 450 settings and over 5,000 children, the new system has transformed the London Borough’s approach and is proving popular with providers as it delivers accurate, monthly payments. They are distributing £20 million worth of funding with a team of four people, which is quite amazing.
In creating our marketing leadings Funding Portal, we have provided the following range of functionality that now allows the LBB team to fully manage data collection and data quality in order to provide accurate monthly payments:
Key Functionality:
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