1. About you

1.1 What is the name of your authority?

Please indicate whether you a unitary, district, county, etc
County District Unitary Other

1.2  Your name

and contact details

1.3 Do you have any specialist early years library staff in your authority? Yes No

If so, please give their job title

and source of the funding of their post

2. Early Years Childcare and Development Partnerships

2.1 Are you a member of your EYDCP? Yes No

If not is there a specific reason?

2.2 What is your main contribution to your EYDCP?

2.3 What is the main benefit you have received from membership of the EYDCP?

3. Sure Start

3.1 How many Sure Start areas are there in your authority?

3.2 Please name the Sure Start Partnerships of which you are a member

3.3 If you are not a partner in a local Sure Start partnership is there a reason for this?

3.4 What is the nature of your involvement in Sure Start? (please tell us about projects you are involved with)

3.5 How do you think Sure Start is benefiting early years library services?

3.6 Are you involved in any initiatives to target early years children in situations of deprivation which Sure Start is not targeting (for instance rural deprivation, non-geographically defined communities of deprivation, etc)?

4. Bookstart

4.1 Have you found Bookstart has enabled you to develop new partnerships and embed your libraries’ work in the early years sector?

4.2 Have you developed your Bookstart programme with Bookstart Plus, or other add-on activities?

Please indicate funding sources for these