Special Events
Book Here: Connecting Early Years with Family Hubs: Riverside â Fill in form
Working in partnership to deliver Early Help, supporting families together through local services and strong networks
Working with children and families in the Riverside locality? [Dates for other Family Hubs coming soon!]
Join us for a look around and an informative session on Monday 29th June, 6:30pm to 7:30pm at:
đ Riverside Family Hub
289 Bosworth Drive
Chelmsley Wood
Solihull
B37 5DP
âĄď¸Book Here: Connecting Early Years with Family Hubs: Riverside â Fill in form
Click here to view google maps -289 Bosworth Drive, Chelmsley Wood, Solihull, B37 5DP
Parking: There are a few parking spaces at the back of the Hub or it is a short 5min walk from the Chelmsley Wood Asda Shopping Car Park [Free parking for up to 3hrs]
What to expect:
Join us to:
- Learn about the range of services and support available at Riverside Family Hub
- Discover what happens at the hub and how it operates
- Explore how the hub can support your children and families
- Build connections with other Early Years professionals in the local area
- Meet your local Neglect Champions
Who should attend?
- Early Years Setting:
- Leaders and Managers
- Designated Safeguarding Leads
- Childminders and Assistants
- Early Years SENCo
- Early Years Practitioners
This is a great opportunity to strengthen partnerships and ensure families are accessing the right support at the right time.
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Peter Daniel from Rock Solid Consulting will join us at our Summer Childminder Network Meeting
Date:Â Thursday 11th June 2026
Time: 6:30pm â 8:30pm (arrival from 6:15pm)
Booking Link:Â Booking form
Agenda:
- Making Tax Digital / Business with Peter Daniel [RockSolid Consulting â Specialists in Business Growth]
- Also on our Agenda - Ofsted Toolkit with Vicki Abrahart, Quality Lead, Early Years Team
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This a free 5 session course running March to June 2026 led by Debbie Brace who works in Early Years as an early language and behaviour consultant bringing child development theory to life in practice. Please see flier for full details:Â 2026 Being with babies 5 course flier
Booking Link:Â Booking Form
North Event
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- Parking -
- Chelmsley Wood Car Park - SatNav use Postcode B37 5TT. Park for free for 3 hours at Chelmsley Wood Shopping Centre. Our car park is open from 6am - 8pm, Monday to Saturday or Asda 3hrs free
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5:45pm - Arrival / networking
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SSCP Neglect Resources
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SSCP Module 6 and NSPCC Graded care profile overview, SSCP Neglect and Child Neglect training presentation resources
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- 6:30/6:45pm - close
South Event - TBCÂ
Resources: https://www.solgrid.org.uk/eyc/resources/safeguarding-and-welfare/neglect/
There is an expectation that a communication champion, SENCo or lead from every Solihull group setting will attend this training.
The training will focus on our early years SLCN pathway and support available to settings and families within our Solihull community. We will signpost to resources available to Solihull settings and families.
Please see flier for further details: Solihull SLCN community Natter Matters flyer 2026
Toolkit: Solihull Toolkit SLCN- Natter Matters
Simple Ofsted checklist SLC 2025
NEW audit-CLL-Learning-environment-2025
There are 2 dates so that settings can book on their preferred date/ venue but they are a repeat session so both do not need to be accessed.
Option 1:
Date: Thursday 5th March 2026
Time: 9:30am - 11:30am
Location: Solihull Council House - please report to reception
Booking Link: Booking form
or
Option 2:
Date: Tuesday 17th March 2026
Time: 1.15pm - 3.15pm
Location: The Loft, Bluebell Centre [Top floor of Chelmsley wood shopping centre]
Booking Link:Â Booking Form
Audience: PVI, EY groups and school EY settings
- 1 person from every school and group setting [day nursery, play group, etc] should send a leader, SENCo or their communication champion to this meeting. We aim to encourage 1 person from each early years setting/ school to attend
Past Special Events - recordings and information
Resources following the webinar on Thursday 10th April 2025
- 10th of April 2025
- LM Supporting play intro end
- Health and safety slides NE
- Power of Play AW April 2025 no images
- childrens-play-july-2012
Audience: Solihull leaders, Councillors, site managers, all age school and settings, holiday play schemes and out-of-school clubs, DSLs, social workers, play workers, community teams, Family Hubs, and anyone with an interest in the benefits of play.
Hosts:
- Lisa Morris ~ Early Years Team Manager
- Ali Wood ~ Ali Wood is a freelance playwork consultant. She is the chair of The Young Opportunities Solihull, has co-managed Meriden Adventure Playground and is a trustee of The Playwork Foundation UK. She is co-author of Playwork in Practice: Applying the Playwork Lens Across the Children's Workforce [2024] and Reflective Playwork. Ali brings her research knowledge, and practical application of approaches into practice, to this training session. Ali will explore the benefits of play and risky play. How should we support childrenâs autonomy so that children can have the opportunity to direct their own play? What is the role of adults in keeping children safe when providing an exciting, inspiring, creative play environment to support childrenâs independence? She will talk about risk benefit assessment and play sufficiency
- Ofsted representatives and Myth Busting ~ Jo Holt and Katie Rudge (Ofsted regulatory inspectors). Supporting play as inspectors find out âWhat is it like to be a child or learner in this provider?â
- Solihull Health, Safety and Risk Service ~ Nicki Evans (Health and Safety Advisor) Children's play and leisure: promoting a balanced approach