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The Early Years/School Ready Team

What are the key responsibilities of the Early Years/School Ready Team?

  • To provide information, advice and training to schools, day-care settings and childminders to ensure all early years provision is good or outstanding
  • To raise the attainment of children by the age of five in order that they achieve a ‘good level of development’
  • To ensure all provider types are compliant with the Early Years Foundation Stage Statutory Framework
  • To deliver the Local Authority statutory profile assessment duty
  • To encourage take up of the 2 year old entitlement for eligible children through direct contact with parents and partnership working

What are the aims of the Early Years/School Ready Team?

  • To raise attainment in all 17 aspects of learning to close the gap between Walsall and National outcomes
  • To raise the attainment of vulnerable groups including disadvantaged children and those with special educational needs
  • To analyse data and use it to inform the planning of network events, training packages and targeted work in schools and settings
  • To strengthen leadership in Early Years to ensure all ‘quality of leadership’ judgements are good or outstanding
  • To work in partnership with other services to ensure that children 0-2 years old have their needs identified and met

What will the Early Years Team provide?

  • Advice, challenge and support to schools, settings and childminders on all aspects of the Early Years Foundation Stage, the Statutory Framework for Early Years and the relevant Inspection Handbooks
  • Network events three times a year for school EY leaders and setting managers
  • Training courses and conferences
  • Brokerage of school to school support
  • Leadership programmes
  • Audits and audit tools
  • Information about national policy and procedure
  • Information about early learning and childcare places (Family Information Service)
  • Information to the Access Team about local information about sufficiency of places for all qualifying children in order that they can access their early learning and childcare

More information

Nicola Hart (Senior Quality Assurance Manager – Early Years) 01922 652892/07730502471 nicola.hart@walsall.gov.uk

Kim Stokes (School Ready Improvement Manager) 01922 652936/07944279937 kim.stokes@walsall.gov.uk

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