Applications for the ‘Early Learning and Childcare Inclusion Fund’ will close on Monday 2 December at 12pm.

The Scottish Government’s ELC Inclusion Fund provides funding to early learning and childcare settings to support children with additional support needs to fully benefit from their funded ELC entitlement. All settings that offer ELC funded places can apply.

CLICK HERE for further information

CLICK HERE to access the online application form, case studies, and other guidance documents.

Education Scotland, National Improvement Hub: An Empowered System 

This guidance resource is for everyone involved in working together to improve children and young people’s outcomes.

Education Scotland explains:

“this is a developing resource designed to support our empowered system in its collective endeavour to improve children and young people’s outcomes. The draft jigsaw and supporting guidance explore the contributions of eight key partners in an empowered system. They encourage collaboration, collegiality and mutual respect between all partners”

The guidance resource focuses on the 8 partners to inspire empowerment and collaboration for improvement at all levels, including:

• Empowering Parents and Carers guidance
• Empowering Partners guidance
• Empowering Teachers and Practitioners

For further information and access to the document visit THE NATIONAL IMPROVEMENT HUB

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Improving children and young people’s understanding of their wellbeing

Children in Scotland was commissioned by the Scottish Government to produce this guidance resource with the aim to support children and young people’s understanding of their wellbeing.

The resource has been developed in response to the views of children, young people, teachers and practitioners who stated they would want a resource that provided activities that were ‘fun, creative and engaging’.

For those working with children in the early level, pages 6 – 23 of the resource contain a variety of different experiences to provide for children to help them explore wellbeing. All the suggested experiences focus around the story “There’s a Spider in my Hair” which is readily available online. There are also templates to support the experiences along with further reading and resources.

Click here for further information and to access the resource

Click here to access the e-book ‘There is a spider in my hair’

 

 

 

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Parent Club

Parent Club is a new site full of helpful advice and information for parents and families with children of all ages,  for example, information on how to balance screen time supported with ’25 screen-free activities’ and ‘Tips to avoid a strop at the shop!’

This is an excellent site for settings to signpost their parents too through notice boards, social media, home links, etc. Click here to visit the site.

At a time when there are so many exciting job opportunities within the Childcare sector, we thought it might be useful to remind everyone of the ‘Safe Recruitment through Better Recruitment’ guidance.

This joint resource from the SSSC and Care Inspectorate was published in 2016 as:

 “good practice guidance intended to help employers, especially those in social care, early education and childcare and social work to meet existing legislative and regulatory requirements in relation to the safer recruitment and selection of people who work with individuals who receive support and care from social services in Scotland”

Download ‘Safe Recruitment through Better Recruitment’ by clicking here. 

Upcoming Continuous Professional Learning Opportunities (CPL) in NOVEMBER

Over the month of NOVEMBER, there are a variety of CPL opportunities across Highland. Click through the slides below and use the links to find further information and booking details about the individual sessions. 

Don’t forget to regularly check in at www.careandlearningalliance.co.uk and www.calaelearning.co.uk for up to date information on upcoming training and new e-learning modules being added.