Business planning
Childcare Works Toolkit
Childcare Works have developed an Early Years toolkit. It contains everything you need to
- grow
- sustain
- start childcare provision.
The toolkit contains six categories.
- Business Planning
- Business Growth
- Running of Your Childcare Provision
- Leadership and Management
- Partnership Working
- SEND and Inclusive Practice
Webinars on business planning, including cash flow tools and business plan guidance.
Webinar 1: Business planning
Action plan based on SWOT analysis [23.6 KB] [docx]
How to complete 7S analysis [53.2 KB] [docx]
Example early years 7S analysis [26.7 KB] [docx]
How to complete PESTLE analysis [3.0 MB] [docx]
Example early years PESTLE analysis [34.0 KB] [docx]
How to complete a stakeholder analysis [44.8 KB] [docx]
Early years stakeholder analysis [18.4 KB] [docx]
How to conduct market research [45.8 KB] [docx]
- Business planning, setting goals and tools to help
Webinar 2: Budgeting
How to carry out financial forecasting [55.1 KB] [docx]
- Financial forecasting and budgeting
Webinar 3: Business performance
Early years business dashboard [25.6 KB] [docx]
How to create and use your early years business dashboard [45.3 KB] [docx]
- Managing business and financial performance
Webinar 4: Committee handover
Watch the video and see supporting documents on the Early years committees page.
- Preparing for committee handover
Webinar 5: Childminders
Childminder action plan based on SWOT analysis [24.4 KB] [docx]
How to complete childminder 7S analysis [38.8 KB] [docx]
Example childminder 7S analysis [27.8 KB] [docx]
- Business management for childminders
Webinar 6: Developing your childminding business
- Developing your childminder business
