Dingley’s Promise: Fostering Meaningful Inclusion in Early Years Settings
This package includes four short videos and a slide pack from Dingley’s Promise, a best practice SEND provision. The package intends to equip local authorities and providers with the confidence to foster meaningful inclusion throughout their settings.
Dingley’s Promise Part 4: Strategies
This video focuses on strategies to support SEND children. The strategies explored include home visits, social stories, visual timetables, now and next, sustained shared thinking and turn taking.
Dingley’s Promise Part 3: Partnerships and Collaborative Working
The video focuses on the benefits of collaborative partnership working. Effective partnership working, with parents, external agencies and SEND professionals all work to improve children’s developmental progress and long-term outcomes.
Dingley’s Promise Part 2: Inclusive Practice – Progressing the Learning of Children with SEND
This 20 minute video outlines the psychology of learning in early years. In this video our colleagues at Dingley’s promise explain what a play schema is, examples, and how to use children’s preferred play schemas to extend their learning. The second part of the video explains different strategies for progressing learning including: physical, listening and […]
Business Sustainability Health Tool
A tool for providers (or local authorities supporting providers) which is designed to support you with understanding your overall business health, and areas you may need to focus on to improve.
Funding Opportunities for Providers
A comprehensive list from Norfolk County Council of early years funding opportunities available to providers along with template expression of interest forms for prospective applicants.
Childcare Expansion and Wraparound Grant Templates
Templates developed by Norfolk County Council for Childcare Expansion and Wraparound Grant.
Templates and Guidance Forms
A variety of templates and guidance forms from various local authorities.
Let’s Be Confident… Discussions about Funding to Promote the Opportunities for Providers
Slides from the action learning Let’s Be Confident… Discussions about finding to promote the opportunities for providers, supported by expert advisors.