LCSP presentation25 Nov 08 Jennie Landsberg

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Working Together to Improve Outcomes in the Early
Years
Jennie Landsberg Principal Adviser Early Years
and Childcare
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Kents Vision

• Partnership working with all providers in early
  years maintained and Private Voluntary and
  Independent sectors
• Aim to set and meet challenging targets a
  culture of improvement
• Theme is a shared understanding of quality
  provision
• Outcome is to make a difference to children,
  families and communities

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Example of a Case Study

• Parents as Partners in Early Learning Learning
  Links a DVD that exemplifies how parents were
  helped to see their childs development through
  different eyes.

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Purpose of the Funding

• Improving outcomes for children by
• Improving the quality of provision
• Narrowing the gap between groups as evidenced
  through Foundation Stage Profile
• Improving the engagement and involvement of
  parents
• Pre-school settings and schools working more
  closely to support childrens development
• Closer working across agencies and teams

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Quality Defined in the 10 Year Strategy
To meet the Governments vision, childcare must
become part of a partnership with parents to meet
the cognitive, social, emotional and physical
needs of children. For too long there has been a
false distinction between education and care
in early years services that is reflected in
different qualifications and regulatory systems.
For children, such a distinction has no meaning.
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Quality Defined in the 10 Year Strategy Cont

• Children need a safe and stimulating
  environment at all times, whether this is
  provided in their own home, in a nursery school,
  a day nursery or a child-minders home. A modern
  childcare system should deliver high quality
  services for children that enable them to learn,
  develop social and emotional skills, and explore
  through play. Working with pre-school children
  should have the same status as working with those
  of school age.

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Effective Provision of Pre-school Education (EPPE
project)

• KEY FINDINGS
• High quality pre-school attendance enhances
  development
• Children make better social and intellectual
  progress in fully integrated centres
• Regardless of social class/educational levels
  when parents actively engage in activities with
  children intellectual and social development is
  promoted
• The quality of pre-school centres is directly
  related to better intellectual/ cognitive and
  social/ behavioural development in children

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Foundation Stage Profile

• Key Facts
• Undertaken at the end of reception year
• A scale of 0-9 points and children achieving 6
  points are working at the expected level.
• Children achieving 8 points and beyond are
  working above the expected level
• Focuses on the whole curriculum and the whole
  child six areas of learning with thirteen
  aspects
• Local Authority statutory targets focus on
• Improving the percentage of children achieving 78
  points and at least 6 in both Personal Social and
  Emotional Development and Communication Language
  and Literacy Development
• Reducing the gap between the lowest 20 and the
  median

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Do you Meet the Criteria to Receive Funding?

• Does your partnership have an existing or a new
  project that focuses on
• Transition between pre-school and school
• Schools and pre-school settings sharing
  experiences and expertise
• Delivering training that brings together schools
  and settings
• Improving communication, language and literacy
• Working with parents
• Improving quality of provision or childrens
  outcomes

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What Funding is Available and How to Access it

• Funding up to 50,000 for partnerships is
  available.
• Funding can support existing early years projects
  or the development of new ones.
• Complete and return the form to
  emma.thorne_at_kent.gov.uk by Friday 12th December
  2008.
• Confirmation of funding allocated will be
  notified to you by 19th December and allocated
  from 1st January 2009.
• If successful, you will provide relevant tracking
  information and evaluation to the LA on work
  undertaken.

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For Further Information

• Please contact Jennie Landsberg,
• Principal Adviser, Early Years and Childcare
  Tel [phone]
• Email jennie.landsberg_at_kent.gov.uk
• I look forward to receiving your applications.