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 HAF Holiday Activities & Food
East Riding of Yorkshire Council’s Holiday Activities and Food (HAF) annual and Easter grant schemes are now launched supporting organisations to deliver fun activities for children and young people aged 5-16 years who receive benefits related free school meals in the school holidays.
Applications are welcomed from constituted organisations, charities, schools, town and parish councils, faith groups and businesses to provide 4-hour sessions and a meal for eligible participants. Up to £150,000 is available to offer a range of fun sessions including sport, play, drama, cooking, crafts, music, healthy lifestyles, art, dance, outdoor adventure or animal experiences.
HAF can part-fund programmes for all children or fully-fund those solely for participants eligible for benefits related free-school meals. Funding can be spent on management and staff delivery, equipment, venue, food, marketing, capital costs, transport, excursions and staff training.
The deadline for the annual grant is Monday 25, January 2023 at noon and if applying for just the Easter holidays, the application form needs to be completed by Monday 30, January 2023 at noon. To apply, please visit the below website https://eastridingofyorkshirecouncil.flexigrant.com/
For an informal chat or further information, please contact Vicky Jude, HAF Commissioning and Quality Monitoring Officer at vicky.jude@eastriding.gov.uk
Booking a place on Training
To book a place on any of the courses in the programme please email: earlyyears.training@eastriding.gov.uk and include title of training requested, name of delegate, setting, email address that will be used to access the training and a contact telephone number for use at the time of the training (in case of technical difficulties). You will receive information a few days before the course with joining instructions and information about how to access the follow up information via the Early Years Knowledge Hub.
Ofsted
Updated information from Ofsted
Registered early years providers - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
FISH Mailout
In order to ensure our providers are able to access such information, we are also starting to publish the FISH Mailout on our other information platforms as well as continuing to e-mail it to providers-
On our Family Services Directory, the FISH Mailouts will be accessible from here- https://fishwebsearch.eastriding.gov.uk/fishwebsearch/mailout.aspx
On our closed East Riding Childcare Providers Facebook Page available here- https://www.facebook.com/groups/572591907237591
If you have not signed up to our FISH Facebook page or our providers page please do so – our main Facebook page is here https://www.facebook.com/EastRidingFISH and we encourage, settings, parnets, staff, carers and other professionals to do so
Via the Knowledge Hub on our closed East Riding Childcare Providers page available here= https://khub.net/group/east-riding-of-yorkshire-early-years-consultation-group which if you haven’t signed up to yet we gain encourage you to do so.
Reporting Notifiable & Infectious Diseases
Details and a reminder below of our new reporting system for notifiable and infectious diseases through our Public Health Team- they will report any cases to Public Health England negating the requirement for you to do so.
As part of our ongoing support for settings who have cases of Covid-19 or other infectious diseases, Public Health working with Families Information Service is writing to ask for your continued support. Furthermore, to aid our ability to understand the changing level of disease and respond quickly to protect the population we are asking you to notify us of communicable diseases, such are coronavirus, influenza and others; full list here.
The below link is a simple form which will enable us to capture information from you about the case, their contacts and risk assess the situation. Public Health and FISH working together where needed, will then be able to offer the advice and support to you and the family.
https://east-riding-self.achieveservice.com/service/Infectious_disease_notification
The link is live, and we ask please that settings start to report cases via this.
If you require further general advice or a call-back, please contact our colleagues through the Education Public Health Officers via email cfsinfo@eastriding.gov.uk.
Dental Health Resource Box
Following from continual evaluation of the Dental Health Resource Box, City Health Care Partnership would like to introduce their new and *COVID SAFE Foundation / Key Stage 1 and separate Key Stage 2 boxes. Each box has teaching aids with a variety of lesson plans to promote classroom discussion regarding good dental health.
Working with statutory framework for early years and PSHE the resource box has been reported as a useful teaching aid. Tailored to the national curriculum, it ensures that nurseries and schools have access to up to date and evidence- based teaching resources. If you wish to hire these resources or have a general inquiry regarding the boxes, please contact the Oral Health Promotion Team at chcp.oralhealth@nhs.net
The resources can be hired for a week and work sheets to evaluate pre and post learning out comes will be attached to the booking confirmation email.
The resource boxes may include:
- Structured lesson plans for Foundation, Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2
- Giant Dinosaur demonstration hand puppet (not included: COVID RESTRICTION)
- Model of decayed teeth and gum disease
- Healthy and sugary foods and drinks
- Activity games
- Role Play Outfits (not included: COVID RESTRICTION)
- Dental pictures including tooth decay, plaque, healthy teeth, and gum disease
- Appropriate story books (not included: COVID RESTRICTION)
Please contact a member of the oral health team before collecting a resource box
The Dental health resource boxes are located in the following venues across the East Riding:
CHCP Dental department inside the Manor Health Centre, Beverley, HU17 7BZ
CHCP Dental department inside Withernsea Hospital, HU19 2QB
CHCP Dental Department inside Bridlington Hospital, YO16 4AP
CHCP Dental Department inside the Woodlands Health Centre, Goole, DN14 6RU
CHCP Dental Practice, 8 Market Place, Driffield, YO25 6AP
Pocklington Library and Customer Services, 23 Railway Street, YO42 2QU
* COVID SAFE PRACTICE = each box will be disinfected before & after each use by a member of our team, with a minimum of 72 hours between left between each collection to allow for disinfection to be effective.
PPE will be provided for the Session Lead (Aprons, Gloves & Masks) but it will be the responsibility of the borrowing establishment to ensure it is disinfected under current COVID GUIDELINES between each session.
Changes to contacting the Families Information Service Hub via telephone
From the 16 January 2023, the current (01482) 396469 number will be changed to give callers two options of who they wish to speak to:
Option 1 will be through to the Families Information Service Hub Helpline Team.
Option 2 will be to speak to SENDIASS.
If nobody is available to take your call (on either option), it will direct to voicemail where you can leave a message and one of the team will call you back.
For FISH enquiries you can e-mail fish@eastriding.gov.uk
For SENDIASS enquiries you can email them via sendiass@eastriding.gov.uk or contact the national SEND helpline 0808 808 3555.
Department for Education Update
The National Professional Qualification in Early Years Leadership (NPQEYL) launched in October and is now available to current and aspiring nursery leaders, childminders, and leaders and head teachers of school-based nurseries. It has been developed to increase knowledge of leadership in early years settings, strengthen staff approaches to teaching and learning, and support children whose development has been impacted by the pandemic.
Participants will gain skills and confidence so they can deliver high-quality education and care to support children’s development, become a better organisational leader and develop staff so they can reach their full potential.
The course is free, flexible and designed by sector experts to help professionals across the sector to develop their career.
More information about the NPQEYL and eligibility criteria can be found at: Early years leadership NPQ (education.gov.uk)
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