Childcare Works – Webinar Summary (Summer and Autumn 2024)
Missed a webinar? This summary document includes links to resources including recordings and slides – a great way to recap on any content you may have missed, all in one place!
Case Study: Local authority management of SEN Inclusion Funding (SENIF) and Disability Access Funding
On 9 December, the Department for Education published details of local authorities’ early years entitlements funding for 2025-26. To accompany this announcement, the department has shared these examples of local authority practice as a tool for all authorities to use as they are thinking about how to develop their EY SEND approaches locally. These examples have been […]
Keeping the Child Central – Cultivating Inclusion in Wraparound Childcare
This two-hour session provides an opportunity for local authority officers to reflect and refresh thinking on SEND and inclusion in wraparound provision. Follow the below link to view the scenarios from the session. Each scenario contains suggested points to consider when discussing with or providing support to a provider. Keeping the child central – scenarios […]
Early Years SEND Assessment Guidance and Resources
The new Early Years SEND assessment guidance and resources, developed by the Department for Education in partnership with Dingley’s Promise, has been created to support a child-centred, strengths-based approach to assessing children’s needs and sharing their progress and learning with parents, carers and professionals.
Dingley’s Promise: Business Planning for Inclusion – slides with audio
A training pack from Dingley’s Promise to help prepare your early years setting for inclusive practice.
Dingley’s Promise: Leadership Priorities – slides with audio
A training pack from Dingley’s Promise to help prepare your early years setting for inclusive practice.
Dingley’s Promise: Daily Management for Inclusion
A training pack from Dingley’s Promise to help prepare your early years setting for inclusive practice.
Dingley’s Promise: Preparing for Inclusion – slides with audio
A training pack from Dingley’s Promise to help prepare your early years setting for inclusive practice.
Dingley’s Promise Part 1: Inclusive Practice Creating the Right Environment
This 20 minute video for providers outlines the 3 aspects of meaningful inclusion: an enabling environment, differentiation, and individualised and supported learning. It provides practical questions to ask yourself to ensure you are providing meaningful inclusion as a way of working in your setting. Part two deleves deeper into sensory circuits with examples and demonstrations […]