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22 February 2023

FISH Reminder: 

From the 1, April 2023 rates will increase as follows: 

• 2-year-old funding entitlement will increase by £0.06p per hour from £5.57 to £5.63
• 3-and-4-year-old funding entitlement will increase by £0.26p per hour from £4.31 to £4.57.

Funded Early Education - for childcare settings and childminders

Dates for the diary

• W/C 13/03/2023 – Spring term actuals payment due.
• 31/03/2023 – deadline date for 3&4 year funding code reconfirmation/applications in order to use them for the Summer term 2023.
• 31/03/2023 – deadline date for 2 year funding codes applications in order to use them for the Summer term 2023.

2023/24 Funding rates

• 2 Year funding - £5.63
• 3&4 Year funding - £4.57

Safeguarding and child protection

If you have any concerns about a child, please contact the Safeguarding & Partnership Hub on (01482) 395500.

SEND Local Offer Bulletin - Edition 79 - 16 Feb 2023

You can view the latest SEND Bulletin below:

SEND Local Offer Bulletin - Edition 79 - 16 February 2023

For information about SEND Local Offer LOOK AHEAD and to register with the service, please visit the LOOK AHEAD page or contact the FISH helpline:

Tel: (01482) 396469 Email: fish@eastriding.gov.uk

Additional Inclusion Support (AIS) Funding (PVI settings)

Applications for Additional Inclusion Support funding are considered on a termly basis with funding to commence at the beginning of the following term. Requests are considered initially by the Area SENCo team prior to seeking approval from the Early Years Support Team. To ensure that the process to runs efficiently, requests must be received by the dates published below.

Summer Term 2023 Funding – Closing date Wednesday, 22 February 2023.

Autumn Term 2023 Funding- Closing date Wednesday, 7 June 2023.

Full details and a request template are available on the East Riding Local Offer and can be accessed via the following link:

http://eastridinglocaloffer.org.uk/directory/?entry=area_senco

Please discuss requests with your Area SENCo, prior to submission, and contact them for

support/guidance with all aspects of inclusion and/or SEND

Important note: Requests received after the published closing dates will not be considered until the following term.

Changes on how to claim AIS Funding

We just wanted to make you aware about changes on how to claim for your AIS Funding.

We have created a new online form that should make the process of claiming for your child in your setting quicker and easier.

In future if your setting has a child who is entitled to AIS funding please use the link below to send in your claims for each month before the 15^th  for  example August’s claim needs to be in by the 15, September making sure you are only claiming for one month at a time.

Please follow all steps in the process.

https://east-riding-self.achieveservice.com/service/Early_years_AIS_funding

We want to assure you that if you have already sent in claim form, we can confirm these will be processed but any received after the 5, August 2022 will not be processed and will be declined.

Please ensure that it is your responsibility to fill in the online form correctly as we will no longer be chasing missed weeks.

Please let us know if you have any queries or problems regarding the new form.

News & Events

Reporting Notifiable & Infectious Diseases

Details and a reminder below of our reporting system for notifiable and infectious diseases through our Public Health Team- they will report any cases to Public Health England negating the statutory requirement for you to do so.

As part of our ongoing support for our settings, Public Health working with the Families Information Service and the Early Years Team have developed such systems to aid our ability to understand the changing level of disease and respond quickly to protect the population- and so 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 enables us to capture information from you about the case, their contacts and risk assess the situation. Public Health colleagues and the Early Years Team, 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 all childcare settings 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.  

Beep Beep! Day

We're delighted to announce that Beep Beep! Day is back and will be taking place on Wednesday 26 April 2023.

Beep Beep! Day is a fantastic opportunity to engage with younger children aged 2-7 all about important road safety issues. It’s ideal for nurseries, playgroups, or childminders as well as youth groups such as Rainbows and Beavers. Brake will provide everyone who signs up with a great printed action pack, once again featuring Aardman's beloved Timmy Time characters, and full of ideas and fun things to do, including:

• Activities
• Stickers
• Postcards
• Certificates
• Posters

You can encourage schools, nurseries, childminders or other educators in your network know about Beep Beep! Day 2023 by sharing our latest bulletin.

You can sign up here to stay informed everything we’re doing for Beep Beep! Day.

Road safety is the perfect topic for activities that can really engage, protect and benefit young children, and Beep Beep! Days are a perfect way to do it. With your help we can reach even more children this year.

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, parents, 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.

Changes to contacting the Families Information Service Hub via telephone

The current number (01482) 396469 has been 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.

If you have any information you would like adding to the Mailout please send by email to fish@eastriding.gov.uk