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City of Edinburgh Council Communities and Families Department Early Learning and Childcare Information Booklet for Early Learning and Childcare Settings Session 2019-20 Early Years Edinburgh A braw place to be – giving children the best start in life Contents Introduction P3 Early Years Team contact details P4 CEC additional useful contacts P5 EY Voluntary Organisations in receipt of CEC Grant Funding P6 – 7 Links to Support Parental Engagement P7 Expansion of ELC and Forest Kindergarten P8-9 Supporting Quality – The Golden Thread P10-12 Graffiti Walls P13-16 Support and Challenge P17-18 Resources to Support Early Learning and Childcare Settings P19 Links to National Guidance to Support ELC P20-21 Edinburgh Early Learning & Childcare Academy P22 Booking through CPD P23 CPD Opportunities 2019/20 P24-25 North East Locality P26 North West Locality P27 South East Locality P28 South West Locality P29 Early Learning and Childcare Contact Details P30-37 Childminders in Partnership P38 Information for CEC ELC Settings P39 – 40 Early Years Calendar 2019-20 P41 Commitment to Sustainability P42 2 Introduction Within City of Edinburgh Early Years Team we have a clear vision: - “To ensure all our children have the best start in life. They are happy, well cared for and have quality opportunities to have fun, play and learn.” We have four principal aims each with a number of specified actions which we believe, if they are realised will provide for the needs and aspirations of all children and their families at this crucial developmental stage. Aim 1 – Place To develop flexible, affordable, accessible early learning and childcare provision and services for all children and families. Aim 2 - People To develop a highly skilled and motivated workforce to deliver a high quality Early Years’ service. Aim 3 - People To strengthen and develop integrated partnership working to provide support for all children and families. Aim 4 – Practice To develop high quality play and learning opportunities and active learning as integral parts of the Early Years’ service. Our Early Years Team will continue to offer a wide range of support and challenge to all City of Edinburgh Council providers of Early Learning and Childcare. This document outlines the key support and challenge available from the early Years central team and provides a ‘one stop shop’ for current information and current contact details. I hope you will find this booklet helpful. Lynn Paterson – Senior Education Manager – Early Years 3 Early Years Team Senior Education Manager – Early Years Lynn Paterson: 0131 469 3131 Early Years and Childcare Team [email protected] general enquiries email address: Quality Improvement Education Officers & Early Learning and Childcare Manager Donna Murray 0131 529 2104 [email protected] Isla Finlayson-Crawshaw 0131 469 3175 [email protected] Gillian O’Rourke 0131 469 3686 gillian.o'[email protected] Paula Dennis 0131 529 2979 [email protected] Bex Carter 0131 529 6243 [email protected] Tracey Shaw 0131 469 3030 [email protected] Paula Greenhill 0131 469 2991 [email protected] Strategic Development Officers Joanna Martin 0131 529 2106 [email protected] Eilish Guy 0131 529 2414 [email protected] Amanda Godsell 0131 621 8320 [email protected] Lisi Black 0131 529 2413 [email protected] Greta Milloy 0131 621 8320 [email protected] Operational Support Officer Georgina Cronin 0131 529 2206 [email protected] Early Years Development Officers Kerry Blair 0131 469 3969 [email protected] Mandy Crosbie 0131 469 3308 [email protected] Peripatetic Teachers Raquel Miro [email protected] Dawn O’Donnell dawn. o’[email protected] Business Support Officer Stuart Wilson 0131 469 3406 [email protected] 4 City of Edinburgh Council - Additional Useful Contacts NAMS Kerry Blair 0131 469 3969 [email protected] Mandy Crosbie 0131 469 3308 [email protected] Psychological Services – Partner Provider contacts only South East Team [email protected] Cathie Rowan 0131 469 2800 Educational Psychologist North East Team Kirsty Mackay, Depute 0131 469 2800 [email protected] Principal Psychologist North West Team Heather Gorton, Depute 0131 469 2800 [email protected] Principal Psychologist South West Team Kirsty Colquhoun 0131 469 2800 [email protected] Educational Psychologist Psychological Services – all CEC Early Years Settings 0131 469 2800 Additional Support for Learning Kirsty Spence, HT ASL 0131 469 2850 [email protected] Early Years contacts Hayley McMurray, ASL 0131 469 2983 [email protected] Service Leader Sheena Lowes, ASL link 0131 469 2980 [email protected] for Partner Providers English as an Additional Language Tessa Humby, ASL 0131 469 2893 [email protected] Speech and Language Therapy Alison Sinclair, Service 0131 672 9454/536 6467 Lead Carolyn Hawkes, Service 0131 537 7119 Lead [email protected] Digital Learning Team 0131 469 2989 http://digitallearningteam.org Information and 0131 469 2960 Peffer Place, Edinburgh Learning Resource 5 Early Years Voluntary Sector Organisations in receipt of City of Edinburgh Council Grant Funding. Organisation Contact Details Phone contact Paula Swanston Home Link – Volunteer Unit 1 Newington Business Centre, 0131 661 0890 Dalkeith Road Mews, Edinburgh, EH16 5GA Crossreach-Perinatal Depression Joyce Linklater Services Lothian Wallace House, 3 Boswall Road, 0131 538 7288 Edinburgh, EH5 3RJ First Hand Lothian Beverley Read Strathmore Business Centre, Hopetoun Gate, 0131 523 1322 8b McDonald Road, Edinburgh, EH7 4LZ Home-Start Leith and North East Anne Nixon Edinburgh 247 Leith Walk, Edinburgh, EH6 8NY 0131 553 7819 Home-Start West and South West Margot MacKenzie Room S3 525 Ferry Road, Edinburgh, 0131 446 7028 EH5 2FF Multi-Cultural Family Base Marise Gowenlock 50 Coburg Street, Edinburgh, EH6 6HE 0131 467 7052 One Parent Families Brock Luek 13 Gayfield Square, Edinburgh, EH1 3NX 0131 557 7892 Oxgangs Sure Start Project Sue Christie Colinton Mains Community Education Centre, 0131 441 7318 Firrhill Loan, Edinburgh EH13 9EJ Stepping Stones for Young Morag Wilson Parents 9A Pilton Drive North Edinburgh EH5 1LY 0131 551 1632 6 Dr Bells Family Centre Anna Templeton Community Crèche 15 Junction Place, 0131 553 0107 Edinburgh, EH6 5JA Craigmillar Books for Babies Kara Whelan Castlebrae Community High School, 2A Greendykes Rd, 0131 621 2621 Edinburgh, EH16 4DP Smart Play Network Lesley Fox 16 Constitution Street, 0131 554 2620 Edinburgh, EH6 7BT Men in Childcare Derek Thomson Norton Park 57 Albion Road, 0131 475 2333 Edinburgh, EH7 5QY The Yard – Early Years Jenny MacDonald 22 Eyre Place Lane, 0131 476 4506 Edinburgh, EH3 5EH Links to Support Parental Engagement Programmes, Activities and Groups for parents and carers: Download locality booklets from www.edinburgh.gov.uk/pacs or signpost parents and carers to www.joininedinburgh.org Family Support Organisations signpost to Edinburgh Voluntary Organisations’ Council (EVOC) website www.evocredbook.org.uk FREE parenting helpline, email and web-chat service: for anyone caring for or concerned about a child – open until 9pm Monday to Friday. 08000 28 22 33 [email protected] Parenting website: access FREE parent resources, support networks and parent help lines on a range of topics. www.parentingacrossscotland.org For further information and signposting within your locality. Please contact your Lifelong Learning Development Officer for Parent and Carer Support. North West: [email protected] North East: [email protected] South East: [email protected] South West: [email protected] 7 Expansion of Early Learning and Childcare The Scottish Government document A Blueprint for 2020: The Expansion of Early Learning and Childcare in Scotland sets out the requirement to increase funded ELC entitlement from 600 to 1140 hours by 2020. This requires us to make significant changes to the provision of ELC in Edinburgh, whilst ensuring we continue to provide a high-quality service for children and their families that offers greater flexibility, accessibility and affordability to parents. Edinburgh has approximately 11,000 children who are eligible for funded Early Learning and Childcare. We are making positive progress and leading the way in meeting the additional hours for ELC in Scotland by 2020. Our request for £87.5m funding has been fully met by the Scottish Government which will help us recruit the additional staff that are needed and build the new early years facilities. Our expansion plan has seen us delivering the additional 1140 hours since August 2017. By August 2019 we will have achieved the following • 47 Local Authority and 79 Partner Provider settings delivering 1140 hour places • 23 Childminders in partnership • 6 Forest Kindergartens • 390 new staff recruited to the local authority • 7 new build nurseries completed and another 5 new builds started. Our expansion plan has been developed which will provide a variety of delivery models to meet the flexibility required by families and carers to ensure all children will have access to a place in their own locality. We are excited and looking forward to this great opportunity to provide excellent learning and teaching for our youngest learners to ensure they have the best possible start in life at the same time as enabling parents to access the world of work. 8 Forest Kindergarten As part of the 1140 expansion plan we will have developed six sites for session 2019-20 for children to access their funded ELC 1140 hours. Six Forest Kindergartens at: Lauriston Castle – children from Cramond and Clermiston Primary Schools will attend a blended approach of Early Learning and Childcare within a nursery class and a forest kindergarten.