Best Start - strategic early learning and school age childcare plan 2022 to 2026: island communities impact assessment screening

Step Three - Consultation

• Is there are information already gathered through previous engagements?
• How will you carry out your consultation and in what timescales? Public meetings/Local Authorities/key Stakeholders
• What questions will you ask when considering how to address island realities?

Separate consultation events for Island communities/Local Authorities?

As the Plan will not introduce any changes to policy or set out detailed delivery or implementation plans for our childcare policies or programmes, we do not consider it necessary to undertake any consultation on islands impacts.

Any further developments of policy or implementation plans in pursuit of the four strategic priorities in the Plan will be subject to their own processes of consultation. At that stage, we will consult as necessary in order to understand and address island realities.