Supporting early years children to tell stories
National Storytelling Week takes place from 29 January - 6 February 2022.
Stories provide a great opportunity to teach children about the world, encourage empathy and help to develop essential literacy skills. Celebrate with a range of free resources from the National Literacy Trust.
Find more here.
Schools and Early Years Census Guidance
Spring term 2022 for Afghan Arrivals under the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Programme (ARAP) and Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme (ACRS)
Eligibility and Entitlements:
• ARAP and ACRS families will have recourse to public funds and could be eligible to free early year education entitlements for 2, 3 & 4 year old entitlements, where they meet the published criteria.
The Afghan resettlement (Education) Grant 2021 -2022 is for the provision by LA’s for children arriving from Afghanistan under ARAP, ACRS and British Nationals currently residing in bridging accommodation - a team has been set up within WCC to manage work linked with this grant and can be contacted via earlyyears@warwickshire.gov.uk if you have any questions.
• Bridging accommodation - namely hotels funded by the Home Office
Census reporting:
To avoid double funding the DfE has directed that local authorities should treat children living in bridging accommodation as follows, for School and Early Years Census purposes:
- Record zero funded hours for children who are registered pupils of the school on the School Census
- Not record children on the Early Years Census
Note: For children living in bridging accommodation - children’s early years funded hours must still be added to the Headcount with the addition of a note added to the Notes tab stating this and payments as required will be made to the setting.
- Children of families living in permanent accommodation should be recorded on the School and Early Years Censuses in the usual way.
Safety tips on the main accident risks to children in five languages
The Child Accident Prevention Trust (CAPT) has published five fact sheets translated into five languages – Urdu, Bengali, Panjabi, Polish and Arabic – for speakers of English as an additional language.
Please find here the material.