Contents
- Introduction
- Highlights
- Bexley’s Steering Group and provider overview
- Children and families’ feedback
- Food
- Enriching activities
- Physical Activities
- Nutritional education and the promotion of healthy living / lifestyles
- Special Educational Needs & Disabilities (SEND)
- Introduction of the centralised booking
- Key challenges
- Marketing and communications
- Additional resources, partnerships and aligning with other priorities
- Plans for 2024/25 HAF programme year
2. Highlights
Below is the attendance breakdown for the Easter, Summer and Winter programmes that took place during the 2023/24 HAF Programme year. Each child could attend for up to 16 sessions during the Summer programme, and up to 4 sessions during the Easter and Winter programmes.
Easter 2023 Programme
| No. of Providers | No. of Locations | No. of Sessions offered | No. of Sessions attended | No. of Individual children attended | No. of Primary aged children | No. of Secondary aged children | No. with SEND or additional needs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 | 26 | 3,640 | 3,092 | 1,156 | 952 | 204 | 203 |
Summer 2023 Programme
| Number of Providers | Number of Locations | Number of Sessions Offered | Number of Sessions Attended | Number of Individual Children Attended | No. of Primary aged children | No. of Secondary aged children | No. with SEND or additional needs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 | 26 | 14,308 | 11,060 | 3,408 | 3,017 | 391 | 623 |
Winter 2023 Programme
| Number of Providers | Number of Locations | Number of Sessions Offered | Number of Sessions Attended | Number of Individual Children Attended | No. of Primary aged children | No. of Secondary aged children | No. with SEND or additional needs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 25 | 3,518 | 2,323 | 1,545 | 1,333 | 212 | 205 |
2023 / 24 Budget Breakdown
The table below shows the funding we received from the DfE for the 2023/24 HAF Programme year, and how that budget was spent.
| Allocation | £ |
|---|---|
| London Borough of Bexley’s allocation from the Department for Education | £830,020.00 |
| Expenditure Type | £ |
|---|---|
| Management and administration of the programme by the LA. | £83,000.00 |
| Easter 2023 programme costs | £115,691.00 |
| Summer 2023 programme costs | £478,525.00 |
| Winter 2023 programme costs | £142,756.00 |
| Publicising the scheme to eligible families and other communications. | £111.00 |
| Centralised booking system | £9,937.00 |
| Total expenditure for 2023/24 HAF Programme year | £830,020.00 |