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Ready to learn and with the executive functioning and all the great things that quality Early Education can do for them. This first slide is justthis our pie and this represents 39. 8 million the office manages and [inaudible] the bulk is in subsidize. We have programs for california works families and are subcontract out the state contract and have a Homeless Initiative in infant and toddlers who in shelter or had a recent shelter stay and siblings and also a low income subsidize for infant and...

Of people thought of baby sitting and there is a change primarily because of Brain Research and understanding of about Early Brain Development and the opportunity to make a difference with poor children and disadvantaged groups and to support families. Using early care as a economic support is a win win win. It is a ecpneumic support and driver for providing quality options for families so they can go to work and feel good where their clern are and early support for children so they reach school...

Is just a example of the San Francisco preschool center rates. The top blue line is based on the 85 percent of the market so that is what the federal fwidelines are that if you vavoumper you should be able to access 85 percent of your market, however, states across the country dont always implement. They do the survey and konet always implement those rate increases. In california we have a voucher system and state contracted system and so the state contracted system lagged far behind the voucher...

Go dracktly to 28 state contractors who operate multiple sites and so everything we do has to keep in mind what that system looks like and how we work in tandem with that system and comp lment that subsidized child care system in the city and there are part ners in delivering services. Those are a total of 5 providers. One of the things in terms of the policy issues kw Response Strategies that we are working on, we manage San Francisco pilot that allows us to have a higher state reimbursement ra...

This is to call out the squeeze that our middle income families experience in the city because of the cost of livering is very high we want to make sure that we number 1 understand the data and figure out new ways and policies and practs to insure we support our working families and that using fram poverty numbers isnt enough. We need to understand the context that these families live in i im glatd mu chel [inaudible] i guess we need to look for more funding and early care given the high cost fo...

Of people thought of baby sitting and there is a change primarily because of Brain Research and understanding of about Early Brain Development and the opportunity to make a difference with poor children and disadvantaged groups and to support families. Using early care as a economic support is a win win win. It is a ecpneumic support and driver for providing quality options for families so they can go to work and feel good where their clern are and early support for children so they reach school...

Greatest Hits Radio is expanding its coverage in the East Midlands by launching on FM in the region on Monday, October 2nd. This change will see Gem Radio becoming digital-only from the same date. Both stations will continue to provide local news and information for Nottingham and the East Midlands, including traffic and travel as

Greatest Hits Radio is launching new local services for Kent and Northern Ireland. The national version of the station is currently available on DAB, however from 4th September it will launch localised versions with local news bulletins and travel. B

Bauer is removing the local breakfast and daytime shows on Greatest Hits Radio South Wales.

A local community in Heaton came together at the weekend to host a Platinum Jubilee Street Party - and they raised more than £700 for charity.