Foreland Fields Early Years Outreach Service

Early Years Outreach

Foreland Fields has a Service Level Agreement with Kent Local Authority to provide an Early Years Outreach Service. The Foreland Fields Early Years Outreach Service provides support from a team of Specialist practitioners to mainstream settings across Thanet. The Support is for children aged 3-4 years who are accessing a mainstream setting and have been identified as having complex needs. They may have a diagnosis of Autism or be on the pathway for an ASD diagnosis or they may have other physical, medical and/or health needs.

Children are allocated to the Early Years Outreach Service via a Professional Resource Group which takes place every term (6 times a year) and is made up of the following services:

 A core membership of;

  • SENIF Finance Team
  • Portage Manager / Officer
  • STLS Teachers
  • Early Years Quality Adviser
  • SEND Support & Inclusion Practitioner
  • EY Outreach Manager
  • Health Visitor
  • Family Hub
  • Educational Psychologist
  • Speech & Language Therapist
  • SENIF Monitoring Officer

Other participants could also include;

  • SEND Support & Inclusion Manager (Early Years)
  • EYC Quality Manager
  • EY Childminding Adviser
  • EY SEND Support & Inclusion County Co-ordinator
  • Sensory & PD Specialist Teachers
  • Other professionals as appropriate

 

The Early Years Professional Resource Group (EY PRG) ensures that Early Years providers, children and their families, have access to a bespoke offer to meet their needs during the Early Years phase of their education by a range of professionals and services. Requests for support will primarily be made by Portage, Early Years Quality Advisers or Childminding Advisers and on occasion by other professionals. The children on caseload are visited in their mainstream nursery by the Early Years Outreach team and practitioners work closely with nursery staff to ensure children are receiving the best possible provision. The outreach service is for a minimum of 1 hour a week for each child on caseload for a minimum of 6 weeks. This is monitored and reviewed regularly by the Early Years Outreach Manager.

 

Where children are not accessing a mainstream nursery, our Early Years Outreach Manager works with nurseries and families to integrate the child into a nursery for outreach to take place. If the needs of the child are too complex meaning that they can’t access a mainstream nursery, Foreland Fields School will determine whether or not the school has the capacity to carry out interventions on the Foreland Fields site. In these circumstances, an Early Years Outreach Practitioner will support the child onsite at Foreland Fields School for a minimum of an hour a week for a minimum of 6 weeks.

 

Our Early Years Outreach Team consists of an Early Years Outreach Manager, an Early Years Outreach Deputy Manager and two Early Years Outreach Practitioners.