Early Years News

July 21, 2023

FAO: Solihull Leaders and Managers

This will be the last Early Years Team News which brings together a range of information. This information is largely shared through specific newsletters – such as Ofsted News, SSCP Newsletter, Foundation Years, etc.
Our emails will, in the future, contain single or a small number of Solihull led themes.

Action Required

• Watch the introductory briefing for Operation Encompass
• Dingley’s Promise Training

For information

• New Early Years Ofsted handbook
• Solihull parenting team

Reminder

• Oral health and hygiene

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Action Required

Operation Encompass

Watch the short information video below to find out more about Operation Encompass and how you will be able to sign up to be an Operation Encompass setting. This introductory briefing is led by Mark Teago from West Midlands Police. Further information will be available soon. https://sway.office.com/Qm2uXlZvo5S9kMUE?ref=Link.

Dingley’s Promise Training

We will soon have a new module for Inclusion Training- The Child’s Voice. This will be a great addition to the suite of modules already available. If you get the chance over the summer, you may want to register and do the Inclusion module or the Behaviour module of the training. In Solihull we have the modules available as free training for the next few years. We hope all Solihull practitioners working in Early Years will complete the Inclusion module. Every year new modules will be made available. Further information is here  https://www.solgrid.org.uk/eyc/training/

For information

New Early Years Ofsted Handbook

You will find a list of Handbook changes at the link below

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/early-years-inspection-handbook-eif

Solihull Parenting Team

Please click here [link] for more details on support, advice and signposting for parents and carers in Solihull.

Reminder

Oral health and hygiene

Oral health – Help for early years providers – GOV.UK (education.gov.uk)

Recent news from BBC highlights the importance of oral health and dental care promotion. Everything we can do to promote this curriculum area, and stop unnecessary pain and dental procedures, is so valuable. Have a look at the resources listed on DfE website. Good oral health can also support clear speech and there is free DfE training on the prime areas here

BBC Online: Children waiting over a year in pain for NHS tooth removal

For those of you that have finished for the summer, enjoy your break. We hope you can join in with some of the special events taking place in Solihull over the summer. We plan to get out to see many of the Ofsted registered Holiday Play Schemes that we don’t visit already as part of our Setting Improvement Approach visits. Give us a call if we haven’t already contacted you.