Early years and childcare support services guide

Introduction

This webpage is designed to give the early years and childcare sector the latest information about the teams available to support providers in 哔咔漫画. These are the:

Early Years Educational Effectiveness Team
Early Years , Special Educational Needs and Disability Team
Early Years Commissioning Team
Reception Inclusion Pathway Planning Team
Early Years and Wraparound Expansion Team

They support all registered Early Years and wraparound childcare providers to develop high quality, inclusive sustainable early education and childcare places which meet local demand. The teams coordinate support to raise quality for all children in existing provision within the private, voluntary and independent sector and in maintained nursery classes and nursery schools.

In addition to the above teams we also have the Funded Early Education Team who support the delivery of the Funded Early Education Funding across 哔咔漫画. They support the setting with their initial registration for funding, the administration of the funding and they provide advice and support for existing settings.

Early Years Quality, Education and Inclusion

The Early Years Quality, Education and Inclusion Service is made up of three teams:

Early Years Educational Effectiveness Team (including Early Years Safeguarding and Workforce Development)
Early Years Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) Team
Reception Inclusion Pathway Planning Team

The service aims to improve outcomes for all children by providing expert advice, guidance, training and challenge to the sector. We do this by empowering early years teachers, managers, owners, Special Educational Needs Coordinators (SENCOs) and practitioners including childminders to provide high quality inclusive practice and to ensure that children get the right support at the right time.

Early Years Educational Effectiveness Team

The Early Years Education Effectiveness Team provide support and challenge to a range of early years providers including full daycare, pre-schools, maintained nurseries, childminders and out of school provision to promote quality improvements and maintain high quality inclusive provision. The team will provide advice and guidance on quality of provision and the implementation of the Early Years Foundation Stage as well as supporting setting to meet the requirements set out by Ofsted and other relevant legislation.

Early Years Education Effectiveness Team act as mentors and role models to settings in 哔咔漫画; providing training, advice, support and challenge to early years managers, practitioners and childminders.

The advisory team will liaise with both internal and external professionals to ensure that the Continuum of Support and Graduated Response in 哔咔漫画 is fully embedded across the early year's sector and will play a key role in ensure young children in 哔咔漫画 are effectively safeguarded and well supported by practitioners.

The team will work with settings who have disadvantaged and vulnerable children attending to ensure that they are fully supported to achieve the highest possible outcomes. Early identification and intervention is key to the team's support to the sector.

We work closely with the Early Years Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) Team to ensure that settings provided inclusive practice where all children are given the opportunity to flourish. The team provide guidance and support to setting to develop fully inclusive practice with a particular focus on supporting children who are displaying distressed behaviour.

The team work alongside managers and practitioners in early years settings to empower them to become highly reflective practitioners and to continuously evaluate and improve their practice.

Email the Early Years Advisors

earlyyearsadvisors@surreycc.gov.uk

Early Years Safeguarding

The Early Years Safeguarding Advisor provides advice, information and guidance to early years settings on their safeguarding arrangements and practice.

Our aim is to support early years staff with the knowledge and skills to protect every child and young person in 哔咔漫画 from harm, support them to develop their potential and to create an environment where they feel safe to learn.

Email the Early Years Safeguarding Advisor

eysafeguarding@surreycc.gov.uk

Early Years Workforce Development Advisor

I support early years settings, childminders, and wraparound care providers across 哔咔漫画 with careers, recruitment, and staff retention. I offer advice on qualifications, training, and workforce development, as well as providing guidance for individual staff.

We can help settings with:

Recruitment and advertising
Practical ideas for retaining staff
Advice on full and relevant qualifications
Guidance around safer recruitment and supervision resources

We also work with young people and the wider community to:

Share information on training and qualification funding
Guide job searches and applications
Explore career pathways and progression in childcare and education

Contact the Early Years Workforce Advisor

earlyyearsworkforce@surreycc.gov.uk

Early Years Special Needs and Disabilities (SEND) Team

Supporting early identification and intervention through advice and support in implementing a graduated response to meet the needs of children with SEND and promote inclusion through:

Enhancing Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Coordinators (SENCO) knowledge and experience through delivery of training and termly network meetings.
Offering advice and guidance regarding SEND processes.
Providing advice and support to SENCOs ranging from observation visits, SEND surgeries, telephone and email contact.
Promoting multi-agency working with health and education to ensure a coordinated approach is in place to support children with SEND.
Offering advice regarding funding using a graduated response including the Early Intervention Fund.
Providing up to date advice and online resources through the SEND Local Offer website.
Supporting transitions including Team around the Family meetings.
Providing advice and guidance regarding Early intervention strategies and support.

Email the team for the following areas:

Elmbridge, Spelthorne, Epsom and Ewell - sectorne@surreycc.gov.uk
Woking, Runnymede, 哔咔漫画 Heath - sectornw@surreycc.gov.uk
Tandridge, Mole Valley, Reigate and Banstead - sectorse@surreycc.gov.uk
Guildford, Waverley - sectorsw@surreycc.gov.uk

Reception Planning Pathway Leads (RIPPLs)

The team of Reception Planning Pathway Leads (RIPPLs) work with families, Early Years settings and mainstream schools to support children with additional needs and disabilities when transitioning from an Early Years setting into a mainstream 哔咔漫画 school.

The aim of the team is to ensure the interventions and strategies that have been supporting the child, are continued within the school to facilitate a successful mainstream experience. Children must be referred by a professional.

Contact the Reception Planning Pathway Leads

Email rippl@surreycc.gov.uk

Early Years Learning Hub

The Early Years Learning Portal is a one stop shop where 哔咔漫画 providers can access specific training sessions from a range of 哔咔漫画 services. These include:

Education safeguarding
Educational Psychology
Race, Equality and Minority Achievement (REMA)

You can also access resources, documents and information via the hub. The new portal will allow setting owners or the manager to access the training records for the setting, download training materials, provide feedback on course and access to certificates of attendance for staff.

Commissioning for Transformation

Early Years Commissioning Team

The Early Years Commissioning Team works to support the Early Years sector with advice connected to sufficiency of provision, business management, funded entitlements, sustainability and market management and stability. The Early Years Commissioning Team has a responsibility to ensure sufficient, good quality provision, achieving excellence and value for money for 哔咔漫画 residents.

The team provides support to Early Years settings and childminders in setting up and running sustainable Early Years provision. The team can advise in areas such as financial and business advice including financial forecasting and modelling sustainable provision, governance and statutory requirements, setting up a childcare business and how to deliver the funded entitlements. We also work to ascertain need and plan for future sufficiency of Early Years places.

The team works closely with the other Early Years teams within Education with close links with the Early Years Educational Effectiveness Team, the Early Years Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Team and the Funded Early Education Team who are responsible for making all payments to providers.

The 哔咔漫画 Early Years Teams work together to provide a holistic package of support for the early years sector.

Contact the Early Years Commissioning Team

Email: eycommissioningteam@surreycc.gov.uk

Early Years and Wraparound Childcare Expansion Team

The Early Years and Wraparound Childcare Expansion Team are responsible for supporting the delivery of the expansion to Early Years funded places and increasing the availability of wraparound childcare in phases from April 2024 to September 2026.

From April 2024 to September 2025 the government expanded funded early education in 3 phases.
Working parents of children aged 9 months and older can now get 30 hours of funded childcare a week, for 38 weeks a year. This starts from the term after their child turns 9 months.

By September 2026, all working families who need it should be able to get wraparound childcare for their primary school-aged child.

We are a project team and are responsible for capitalising on identified opportunities and minimising associated risks to support the successful implementation of both expansions. We manage grant funding from the Department for Education to help delivery and work closely with the other teams in the service.

Contact the Early Years and Wraparound Childcare team

Email: eyexpansion@surreycc.gov.uk

Early Years, Education, Additional Needs and Disabilities Commissioning Team

The Early Years, Education, Additional Needs and Disabilities Commissioning Team works closely with colleagues across Education, Health and Care Teams. We work to ensure that commissioned services work well with 哔咔漫画's (SCC) own services and that together we are prepared to meet the needs of children and families.

Colleagues across 哔咔漫画 and Health teams ensure that early year's children are included when planning for all children. The team's remit is broad and across a range of programmes and workstreams. Below is some of the work that we do.

All local authorities are required to have an Inclusion Fund as an element of the Early Years National Funding Formula to support EY children with additional needs to access their funded entitlements. In 哔咔漫画 we refer to this as Early Intervention Funding (EIF). Funding can be applied for children who are in receipt of Funded Early Education. It is awarded according to the level of need as detailed within the child's 哔咔漫画 Support Plan (SSP), and will be in place to support children to access settings where there may be barriers to learning including social, economic, environmental, adverse childhood experiences or additional needs and disabilities. The team hold weekly quadrant panels with EY Professionals which will allocate EIF to children and settings.

We hold the Early Years Governance Panel on a yearly basis to understand whether children with additional needs and disabilities are thriving in inclusive early years settings, if we think that children need a specialist school nursery in the year before they go to school, an Early Years Inclusion Pathway Planning (EYIPP) meeting will be held with parents/carers, the setting and any involved professional to understand the child's education needs. Children who may require more than is currently being provided will be discussed (at parent/care's discretion) at the Governance Panel. We also work with SEND Area Teams, SEND Admissions and SEND Placements to ensure that children finishing at an early year's setting have an education in a school that best meets their needs. The team manages education contracts to ensure that children have the right support in education, including working closely with the Holiday and Food (HAF) Programme team to provide governance and support..

We also have a responsibility for managing and recording SEN Support Notifications (SSNs) which help to guide the sufficiency of places for children when they go to school. EY settings receive the SSN which then provides the information that health identify that the child has additional needs and requires support.

We work together with our early years' colleagues on the expansion for Early Years Funded Entitlement for 9 months+, 2, 3 and 4 year olds.

Contact the Early Years, Education, Additional Needs and Disabilities Commissioning Team

Email: SENDEdEyCommissioning@surreycc.gov.uk

The Best Start for 哔咔漫画

The Best Start for 哔咔漫画 Strategy works to ensure that we have joined up approaches across sectors. The strategy enables us to work together to remove any barriers to accessing help and support for 哔咔漫画 families through pregnancy and with children aged 0-5 years. Following the introduction of Giving Every Child the Best Start in Life in July 2025, the Best Start team have worked to align the Best Start for 哔咔漫画 with the national agenda. The focus remains on families through pregnancy and with children aged 0-5, to support child development and strong attachments.

Contact the Best Start for 哔咔漫画 lead

Email: kat.link@surreycc.gov.uk

All Age Autism Strategy Commissioning Team

The All Age Autism Strategy team focuses on the implementation of the All Age Autism Strategy 2021 to 2026.

The strategy aims to achieve an autism friendly approach across the county in education, health, social care, work, and communities. Five workstreams have been established to achieve this. The team primarily focus on workstreams

Information, awareness and understanding autism
Education and preparation for adulthood and the Partnership for Neurodiversity in Schools project (PINS).

The strategy has been coproduced with a wide range of partners including autistic children, young people, adults, families, parent carers and professionals. Coproduction continues to be at the heart of implementation. The team works closely with Family Voice, 哔咔漫画 National Autistic Society and Accept Teach Listen Access Support (ATLAS).

Areas of work focused on to date includes:

Pathological Demand Avoidance
Masking
School Autism Friendly Reviews
Transitions
Autism: Gender and Sexuality
Autism: Healthy Eating and Sensory Differences

Autism Resource Development Lead - Caitlyn Larnyoh

Contact the All Age Autism Strategy Commissioning Team

Email: allageautismstrategy@surreycc.gov.uk

Funded Early Education (FEE)Team

The FEE Team supports the Early Years settings, schools and childminders. They process payments and offer assistance to the Early Years directorate in actioning the Funded Early Education claims for 9 months+, 2, 3 and 4 year olds through;

Registering settings on to the 哔咔漫画 Directory of Providers
Actioning changes and requests received through the online registration form
Updating childminder vacancies
Arranging access to the Funded Early Education Portal
Assisting settings with setting up their Provider Agreements
Support settings with changes to funding claims on the portal
Helping settings to enter their claims and assisting with any queries or system issues
Process and review FEET applications from parents and settings
Complete eligibility checks for Early Years Pupil Premium (EYPP) for PVIs and Schools
Complete eligibility checks for 30 Hours for PVIs and Schools
Calculating and making payments to approximately 1000 Providers each month
Making payments in respect of 15,000 children for Universal funding, 7,000 children for extended funding for 3 and 4 year olds, 1,500 2 year olds (FEET) and 5,000 2 year olds (working entitlement)
Raising invoices to reclaim funding where necessary at the end of each funded period
Making payments of Inclusive practice funding, Disability Access Funds, Sufficiency and Sustainability Grants
Attending panel meetings for Early Intervention Funding (EIF) and processing the agreed funding offer
Collecting information required for Census, completing and following up on queries relating to Census submission

Contact the Funded Early Education (FEE) Team

Woodhatch Place
11 Cockshot Hill
Reigate
哔咔漫画
RH2 8EF
Email: fundedearlyeducation@surreycc.gov.uk

Early Support Service

The Early Support Team works with families holistically to improve outcomes for their children, 0-5 years old with multiple, complex health needs and disabilities. Putting the child at the centre, we listen to parents and establish a team around the family to coproduce a plan of support. This approach builds confident parents and enables children to reach their full potential.

Our aim is to make life a little bit easier as simple daily tasks can be very challenging when you have a child with complex needs. There may be many people and services involved and we can help by coordinating these. We work closely with colleagues from health, education, the voluntary sector and social care.

Some of the ways we support our families

Home visit - depending on the current guidance or risk assessment, this could be virtual or socially distanced
Allocating a key worker who can be one point of contact for the family
Keeping in touch regularly, not just when there is a problem
Offer information, advice and practical support about local services
Organise an Early Support Team Around the Family (TAF) meeting (currently virtual)
Run and support holiday and term time SEND drop in groups with Family Centres, Education and the Voluntary Sector

Our criteria

We are a targeted level 3 service with each full time equivalent Early Support Key Worker holding a caseload of 12 to 15 families.

Child with complex health needs, disabilities and/or special educational needs aged: 0 to 5 years (a diagnosis is not required)
3 or more specialist health/education professionals involved (or referred to)
Parent/carer gives consent for Early Support to be involved
Family in need of regular input to increase resilience and improve child's outcomes due to significant social, financial, health and/or community challenges

To refer a family to Early Support

Do contact us to discuss any possible referrals and let us know if you have made a referral. Complete a Children's Single Point of Access (C-SPA) Request for Support Form stating a referral to Early Support is wanted clearly on the form with as much information as possible about the child's special needs and the family's situation.

A less than 3 month old Early Help Assessment is also an acceptable way to refer in. There is a link to the Request for Support Form on the 哔咔漫画 early Support Service for young children with disabilities webpage.

Email: earlysupport@surreycc.gov.uk

Early Years Phase Council

A Voice for the Early Years Sector in 哔咔漫画 – Representing your views.

This Council is comprised of an elected membership of representatives designed to capture the views across the maintained, private, voluntary and independent sectors of Early Years providers. The Early Years Phase Council (EYPC) mirrors the work of the Primary, Secondary and Special Phase Councils and works in close partnership alongside them.

The EYPC gives all stakeholders the opportunity, in partnership with our SCC colleagues, to support children and families on their journey of learning. It has a very broad representation from across the sector with members from maintained Nursery Schools, Childminders, Private, Voluntary and Independent (PVI) providers including pack away sessional settings and full daycare settings. This offers us an opportunity to really understand the perspectives of the whole sector and ensure that we have a voice that represents all children under 5 when 哔咔漫画 seeks information and opinion in order to inform future planning and policy for future of Early Years.

The EYPC will work as a conduit to support wider consultation on a broad variety of issues and strategies including service delivery, funding and targeted priorities including SEND and social mobility. We will continue to have representation on Schools Forum, which is instrumental in deciding future funding policy. We will also have opportunity to meet with the SCC Director of Education at regular intervals, along with the Chairs of the other Phase Councils, to influence and input into future strategies.

The Early Years Phase Council is keen to support the sector in 哔咔漫画 and have been looking at ways to do this. We want to hear from you with any concerns, questions, feedback or even positive messages you have.

Email: surreyeyphasecouncil@gmail.com.

For more information and details of current member please visit Early Years Phase Council

Useful information

Early Years Networks, Childminder Networks and Early Years SENCO Networks

Each term the Early Years Educational Effectiveness Team and the Graduated Response Early Years SEND Teams run information network sessions. These networks are an opportunity for owner/managers, practitioners, SENCOs and Childminders to come out meet the team and be updated on the latest early years and SEND news. There are sessions held across the county and while we encourage you to attend the one in your area we are happy to see you at any session.

Early Years Business Forum

These are aimed at anyone involved in the business or financial management of any early years setting that is delivering funded entitlement including independent and maintained schools, childminders, day nurseries, pre-schools and extended day pre-schools. Those who would benefit from attending the forum include childminders, funding managers, school business managers, administrators, bursars and any person responsible for submitting headcount data via the EYES portal.

These new forums will cover a range of topics such as updates to funded entitlements, business planning, marketing, the early years census, changes to statutory guidance, and key themes from recent audits. The forums will also offer valuable opportunities for providers to ask questions, share ideas, and engage in collaborative discussion.

Book places through the

Safeguarding training

Working Together to Safeguarding Children e-learning is suitable for all new staff and for those who have previously attended training but need to refresh their skills and knowledge. The e-learning is available to book via the 哔咔漫画 Safeguarding Children Partnership (SSCP) e-learning webpage. On the same page you will find a range of other e-learning session that support practitioners to develop their knowledge on a variety of safeguarding issues such as Prevent, Domestic Abuse, Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and online safety. Practitioners who are not the Designated Safeguarding Lead or Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead should refresh their knowledge and skills every 3 years.

If you are the setting Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) or Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead (DDSL) then you will find the relevant training for you on the 哔咔漫画 Children's Service Academy webpage. You will be required to complete Working Together to Safeguard Children (WTSC) followed by Advanced Safeguarding in 哔咔漫画 and Early Years Designated Safeguarding Lead – combined new to role and refresher training.

The DSL and DDSL should attend a refresher course every 2 years and should update their knowledge annually. They should also ensure they are aware of changes in regulations and legislation. They can do this by:

making and documenting regular checks on the SSCP website
attending training
signing up for the Childcare professionals E-Bulletin
reading updates and recording dates in a log.

Childcare professionals webpage

There is a range of useful information for childcare professionals on the 哔咔漫画 Childcare professionals page. These pages include information regarding the Early Years Foundation Stage, providing funder early education, running your business, starting your childcare career and training.

哔咔漫画 Local Offer

The 哔咔漫画 Local Offer contains a wealth of information to support families and practitioners supporting children with a Special Education Need or Disability. The Early Years and Playwork practitioner page contains all the information that practitioners need to support children including Graduated Response documents, Individual Support Plans, Funding information and paperwork, making referrals to other agencies and a range of support tools and information.

Family Information Service

哔咔漫画 Family Information Service (FIS) is a statutory service providing free impartial information and signposting for families with children aged 0 to 19 (up to 25 years for those with additional needs). FIS also manage and maintain the 哔咔漫画 Local Offer enquiry service and website.

The role of FIS is to help families get the most out of the information and services available in the community and online. This could be something like helping you find out about local events and activities for your child, or pointing you in the right direction when things aren't going so well and you need a bit of extra support.

FIS also support professionals in their work with children and families by providing centralised information resources to help them guide customers to the services and information that they need.

You can use the comprehensive to find services, support groups, activities, events and more. And if you need some extra help you can always get in touch with us via our How to contact Family Information Service page, by email, phone or social media.

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