Early Healthy Settings

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Early Healthy Settings

• Childcare Bill
• Sure Start Childrens Centres
• Early Years Foundation Stage

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Childcare Bill 2005

• Statutory underpinning for early years
  services
• LA Duty - integrated early childhood services
• - improving outcomes of children
• - and reduce inequalities
• Duties on Health, Job Centre Plus

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Vision for Childrens Centres

• Key delivery vehicle for early childhood services
• Focus on quality and child outcomes
• Multi-agency integrated services health, family
  support, early years provision.
• Currently 855. 2,500 by 2008, 3,500 by 2010
• Links to Extended Schools/ECM

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Health Services

• All will have links with health visitors and
  midwives. 
• provide access to the Child Health Promotion
  Programme
• provide information and guidance on
  breastfeeding, diet and nutrition, hygiene and
  safety
• provide ante-natal advice and support to all
  pregnant women
• encourage parents to attend smoking cessation
  clinics

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Public Health

• Diet and nutrition, cook-and-eat sessions or food
  co-operative
• Tackling obesity day-to-day nutrition/ healthy
  exercise
• Help parents stop smoking
• Promoting mental health and well-being, e.g.
  through parenting programmes, drug/alcohol misuse
  programmes
• Accident and injury prevention

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Early Years Foundation Stage

• Key statutory framework for EY providers
• Brings together Birth to Three Framework,
  Foundation Stage curriculum guidance
• and elements of National Standards for daycare
  and childminding (e.g. on provision of nutritious
  food, HS)

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Early Years Foundation Stage

• Profile judgements based on observational
  evidence (1 Year)
• Learning and assessment scales inc
• Personal, Social and Emotional Development
• Communication, Language and Literacy
• Physical Development

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Monitoring Quality

• Performance Management System (LAs
  CCs)
• Focus on quality and outcomes
• Self Evaluation Tool
• Proposed new Performance Indicators inc
• Foundation Stage profile
• Health obesity, breastfeeding, smoking by
  pregnant women, AE attendance,

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Conclusion

• Major expansion of Early Years services
• Focus Quality and outcomes
• Health Key Priority
• Part of overall ECM programme - Childrens
  Trusts/Extended Schools
• Shared agenda