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4 April 2023

FISH Reminder: 

• Autumn 2023 and Spring 2024 estimates can be submitted later in the year.

Funded Early Education - for childcare settings and childminders

2 Year Funding

All parents wishing to claim the 2 year funding in the Summer term must now have applied, and been found eligible for this funding.

You will need to ensure you have obtained a copy of the funding confirmation which must be kept in the child’s records. confirmation can either be a screen shot of the summary page on the parent account or a copy of the funding letter sent by the relevant local authority.

Any funding confirmations with a start date after 31, March 2023 can be claimed from the 2023 Autumn term.

30 Hours Extended Entitlement

Please ensure that you are checking 30 hours codes before the 17, April 2023, only codes with a start date of 31, March 2023 or before are eligible for the summer term. Codes with a start date after 31, March 2023 can be claimed from 2023 Autumn term.

Please remember that any child wanting to begin their 30 hours Extended Entitlement from the 2023 Summer term must not be in their grace period. We advise that all codes are checked prior to the start of the term to ensure that all parents have reconfirmed their details before the code end date.

Hempsall’s Tax-Free Childcare

All you need to know about Tax-Free Childcare – a back to basics webinar for all activity and childcare providers.

6.30 – 8.00pm, Wednesday, 3 May 2023.

This 90-minute ZOOM webinar will be useful for all childcare settings and activity club providers from across the UK. You should attend if you provide childcare, early years entitlements, before and after school care or activities and/ or holiday activities which are used by parents and carers to help them to work.

If you provide paid for childcare or an activity service for children you be able to support parents by signing up, which could help boost your business; for example organisations that offer sport, drama and music clubs that have registered on the voluntary Ofsted register in England.

This webinar continues our work to raise awareness of Tax-Free Childcare (TFC) and we want to increase your understanding of the scheme. We have developed the content in response to the questions raised by providers at our first webinar in February 2023. This webinar aims to provide an overview of all the information  childcare providers needs to know to support them to be able to sign up and offer TFC to parents and carers.

HMRC has asked Hempsall’s to deliver the webinar, because we are a specialist early years and childcare organisation providing consultancy, training and research for governments, councils and providers. 

We will: 

• Provide a step-by-step guide to Tax-Free Childcare.
• Consider the opportunities for all types of providers – linking to the current economic climate and childcare market to increase take up.
• Consider TFC from a provider’s perspective.
• Highlight activities we can all do to ensure families and childcare providers use to benefit from this government support.
• Signpost you to toolkits and assets that can be used to promote TFC to all.

Webinar outline:

6.30pm – Welcome, Housekeeping  and introduction. (Hempsall’s)

6.40pm – Tax-Free Childcare – What is it? (HMRC)

6.45pm – How TFC works with other government offers. (HMRC)

6.50pm – TFC an opportunity for all types of providers (Hempsall’s)

7.00pm – Who can sign up for TFC (Hempsall’s)

7.15pm – TFC The process. What providers need to know? (Hempsall’s)

7.25pm – TFC in action – A provider’s perspective.

7.40pm – TFC key messages providers can share with parents and carers. 

7.50pm – Tools and assets for providers to promoting Tax-Free Childcare to customers (Hempsall’s)

7.55pm – Summary and evaluation

8.00pm – Close

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 82 – 31 March 2023

You can view the latest SEND Bulletin below:

SEND Local Offer Bulletin - Edition 82 - 31 March 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

Portage Workshop

This is a certificated training course delivered by National Portage Association Accredited Trainers. 

The Portage Workshop is an introduction to the Portage Approach to working with children with additional needs and their families. The workshop is suitable for early years practitioners who work in an early year’s settings (PVI or maintained), Children’s Centres, Childminders and parents/carers of children who are receiving Portage support. 

Central to the course are the ‘Portage Principles’ and the ‘Three Circle Model of Portage’.  The NPA has set standards for minimum workshop content and length.  The Workshop has a core curriculum consisting of seven modules and must last a minimum of 2 full days plus a Follow Up session.

The dates are 27.04.23, 25.05.23 and 06.06.23, the exact venue is yet to be confirmed but it will be in Goole and the course will be face to face. 

The workshop is free to parents of children who are accessing the East Riding Portage Service and practitioners working in the East Riding. 

Please contact earlyyears.training@eastriding.gov.uk to request a place. 

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.

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

Summer Term Training Programme

The Early Years & Inclusion summer term training programme is now available on the Family Service Directory here:  

https://fishwebsearch.eastriding.gov.uk/fishwebsearch/EarlyYearsTraining.aspx

Save the Date: Interacting or Interfering?

Date: Wednesday, 27 September 2023

Time: 6.30-8.30pm

Places: As this training is via Zoom you are able to book as many places for staff as required, when booking please ensure you give each person’s name and email address.

Julie Fisher is an independent Early Years Adviser and Visiting Professor of Early Childhood Education at Oxford Brookes University.  Julie has achieved a doctorate for her research into the changing role of early childhood educators and is a recipient of the Nursery World Lifetime Achievement Award for her contribution to early childhood education. Julie has written numerous books, including Interacting or Interfering.

High quality interactions are recognised as fundamental to the achievement of outstanding teaching and learning in the early years. Every day, early years practitioners engage in interactions with young children that have the potential to enhance their learning. However, such is the temptation to squeeze every teaching moment out of each interaction that practitioners often interrupt children’s thinking and consequently interfere with their learning. This evening course will examine the knowledge, timing and sensitivity necessary to interact effectively. It will consider how practitioners effectively extend and enhance children’s language and communication through natural, genuine conversations. Through the use of DVD footage Julie will explore the role of the practitioner in both adult-led and child-led situations, providing opportunities to reflect on how to tune in to children’s current thinking and how to respond in ways that are of benefit to their learning and development.

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