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  • Nursery Education Funding (NEF)
  • Integrated 2 Year Check
  • The EYFS (2023)
  • Early years toolkit health and wellbeing
  • Positive relationships
  • The unique child
  • Enabling environments
  • Learning and development
  • The 7 areas of learning
  • Early years leadership
  • Early Help in the Early Years
  • Playwork and out of school settings
  • Opening an early years or out of school setting
  • Early Years training
  • Schools opening out of school (wraparound) provision
  • Childcare sufficiency
  • Early Years Online Provider Portal
  • Early Years transition toolkit
  • Business support for early years and childcare providers

Contact the Early Years Team

Find out who to contact in the Early Years Team.

The Early Years Team has extensive experience working as teachers, practitioners and managers in schools and settings, and as childminders. The team have specialist knowledge in working with babies, toddlers, pre-school and reception aged children. Team capabilities include specialists in business practice, teaching, learning, development, inclusion and safeguarding.

Contact the Team

Contact details

Early years and childcare team

Supporting settings and schools to meet the requirements of the EYFS. 

  • phone: 01905 844048
  • email: EYCC@worcestershire.gov.uk 

The team:

  • Nicky Burford – Early Years and Childcare Sufficiency and Improvement Lead
  • Sam Barrett – Early Years Improvement Adviser
  • Zoe Corfield – Early Years Improvement Adviser
  • Sharon Jones – Early Years Improvement Adviser

Early Years Inclusion Team

The Early Years Inclusion Team offer support, advice and guidance to enable settings and schools to meet the needs of children with SEND. an Inclusion Helpline, contact:

  • Inclusion helpline and answer machine: 01905 843099
  • Inclusion helpline email: eyinclusion@worcestershire.gov.uk 

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There is also more information about the team and other inclusion support services on this page: Information for parents and carers

Early Years Funding Team

Nursery Education Funding support for schools and settings.

Patrick O’Connor and Hana Malins

  • phone: 01905 844494
  • email: EYFunding@worcestershire.gov.uk or NEF@worcestershire.gov.uk 

Early Years Systems Team

Support accessing the Online Provider Portal and the Children’s Services Portal, updating published information about settings and applying for Two Year Old Funding for families in receipt of additional support (FRAS). 

Claire Bond and Ellie Ellery

  • phone: 01905 844954
  • email: EYCS@worcestershire.gov.uk or twoyearoldfunding@worcestershire.gov.uk

Wraparound Childcare Team

Support, advice and guidance to settings and schools operating out of school provision.

Wraparound Lead: Nicky Burford

Wraparound Advisor: Sharon Jones

  • phone: 01905 844048
  • email: wraparound@worcestershire.gov.uk 
     

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