Month: September 2018

The Provider Portal is open until 23:59 on Sunday 30th September 2018 for Headcount submissions for the Autumn term 2018. If you have any children to claim for this term, please ensure that any hours are entered and submitted by the deadline. If you don’t have any children to claim for this term, please submit Continue reading →

Devon County Council decided to bring Devon’s Public Health Nursing Service (PHNS) into the direct management of the County’s Children’s Services from April 2019.  This will further strengthen integrated working and has already led to improved joint planning for service revisions in Devon’s Children’s Centres. We intend to maintain the full range of current services. Continue reading →

You are invited to attend a one day awareness training in Perinatal and Infant Mental Health. The day hopes to raise awareness and early identification of perinatal mental health issues, how this impacts on the children and families that we work with and our everyday practice. There are currently 2 dates for this training; Torrington Continue reading →

Heart of the South West Enhance Social Enterprise have an event for social enterprise pre-schools on 22 October to help make your pre-school fit for the future. Workshops include marketing, financial sustainability, digital as well as organisational resilience. For more info and to register see: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/make-your-pre-school-fit-for-the-future-tickets-49374664952

New funding streams this week include: Kelloggs Breakfast Funding – Kellogg’s has teamed up with Forever Manchester to award grants of £1,000 to school Breakfast Clubs, to help them provide breakfast to those children who need it most For all the information on all Charitable Funding streams please see our webpage Keep an eye out of Continue reading →

The Devon Early Years  Team is joining Speech and  Language Therapists, Children’s Centres and other agencies spreading the word.  Look out for Giving Voice tweets and messages from Monday 24th September. Giving Voice week focusses on the importance of speech, language and communication.  Take time to talk to your family, your friends, colleagues and the Continue reading →

This is an extract of the useful information and online training for anaphylaxis and asthma from the recent School Nurse newsletter: Training for Medical Conditions for those working with children

BookTrust are currently redeveloping their resources to help early years professionals who give the Bookstart Treasure pack to families and would like input from a wide range of early years practitioners as possible. Please fill in this short Early years professionals survey to support them and be entered into a prize draw to win a Continue reading →

Kingwood Childcare have booked some Early Years Spread the Happiness training to be held on Wednesday 3rd October from 6-8pm at the cost of £57 plus VAT per person. As well as the “Happiness” aspect, Anita will be looking at Early Maths (Digit Dance) and Fine Motor Control activities including Dough Disco and Squiggle while Continue reading →

This is a book that helps parents and practitioners talk to children about scary situations such as getting lost, home fires, terrorist attacks and events you may see on the news. It includes a guide for parents and carers explaining how to read the book and open conversations. Aimed at children aged 4 years and Continue reading →