BIRTH TO THREES
Birth to Three Matters has provided settings with a welcome framework onwhich to base good practice but more staff training on caring for thevery young is proving essential
Acorn Childcare Training
- Birth to Three Matters: one-day course covering what Birth to ThreeMatters means, and how it can be used in everyday practice.
- Activities for the under-twos: one-day course for practitioners new tothis age group. Topics include play and development, heuristic play,treasure baskets and evaluating equipment.
- Treasure baskets and heuristic play: one-day course.
- Activities for the under-threes: one-day course for newcomers to earlyyears care. Topics similar to those above.
- Working with babies: two-day course for those new to the care ofbabies. Topics include developing an understanding of babies'development from birth to one year and effective techniques forcommunication.
Continyou
- Training for early years workers: three-day course on developingfacilitation skills for working with groups of adults, such as parentingor family learning groups.
Crechendo Training
- Advanced practice in working with babies: Crechendo has been validatedto run this CACHE course.
Early Education Training and Resource Centre
- Planning quality experiences for under-threes: one-day course lookingat ways to create a positive learning environment and experiences forbabies and toddlers.
- Patterns of play - recognising and supporting children's schemas:one-day course to understand and incorporate children's schemas inpractice.
Futureworks
- Birth to Three Matters Framework: one-day course to raiseunderstanding of the framework and its use within settings.
- Heuristic play and treasure baskets: one-day course.
High/Scope Ireland
High/Scope Ireland runs a variety of courses on early years subjects forthose who wish to use the High/Scope approach with children in theirsetting.
Maternity and Nanny Training (MNT)
- Baby care for nannies: one-day course for nannies, maternity nurses,nursery nurses and new parents. Topics include general care, bedtimeroutines and sleeping, feeding, colic and reflux, interaction withsiblings and minor ailments.
- Childcare approval induction course: two days (12 hours). Courses heldat weekends. Designed for childcarers needing to complete an inductionin order to apply to become an Approved Childcarer.
- Emergency paediatric first aid: course covers managing an incident,first-aid kits, care of unconscious casualties, choking, resuscitation,bleeding and burns. Directed at treating young babies and children up toseven years.
- The maternity nanny practitioner: two-and-a-half days of formalteaching, plus pre-reading and post-course assessment for experiencedprofessionals. Leads to a formally accredited qualification in MaternityNursing on successful completion. Covers the care of newborns andpostnatal mothers, and how to gain employment in the maternity sector.Does not cover basics such as bathing and bottlefeeding.
- Postnatal depression: one-day course covering the condition, signs andsymptoms, risk factors for PND, how to support sufferers and theirfamilies and accessing help.
- Care of multiples: one-day course covering caring for twins andmultiple births, premature and other special-care babies, includingfeeding and sleeping and establishing routines.
- Sleep training: one-day course covering normal and healthy sleephabits and sleep problems.
Montessori Centre International
- Infant toddler course: part-time and distance-learning course designedto develop a high level of professional competence in students wishingto extend their training as facilitators of the Montessori method forchildren.
National Childbirth Trust
The National Childbirth Trust (NCT) provides information and practicalsupport on all aspects of pregnancy, childbirth and early parenthood. Ithas 400 branches and its training arm is NHS ConNeCT, which runsworkshops around the country.
National Children's Bureau
- Working with babies - emotional, social and learning needs in daycare:one-day course that looks at the foundations of early learning,baby-adult interactions, the key person approach and the nurturing ofrelationships in the first 12 months of a baby's life.
- Working with one to threeyear-olds - emotional, social and learningneeds in daycare: one-day course looking at talking and listening withyoung children, nurturing relationships and experiences from the age ofone.
National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA)
- Planning a developmental play-based curriculum for children from birthto two: one-day course looking at children's developmental needs and howto meet these through a flexible play-based curriculum. The Birth toThree Matters' framework is an integral part of this course.
- Creating a learning environment for children from birth to two:one-day course on how to create a stimulating environment that motivateschildren to use selected resources to facilitate learning.
Newborn Nannies Training
- Babycare 0-12 months: one-day course covering development, feeding,weaning, immunisation, illness, routine and home safety.
- Care of newborns: one-day course covering all aspects of newborncare.
- Maternity care training: a course comprising four units: care of thenewborn baby, feeding the newborn baby, postnatal care for mothers andestablishing routine. A successful completion of assignments andassessment during the course leads to formal accreditation.
NIPPA: The Early Years Organisation
- Working with under-threes: a 7.5-hour course examining the developingskills of babies and toddlers with regard to play materials.
- The High/Scope curriculum implementation course: a ten-day coursedelivered over a period of approximately ten months, aimed at thoseworking with infants and toddlers.
Pre-school Learning Alliance (PLA)
- Children from birth to five: developing good practice fortwo-year-olds in mixed aged settings.
Stepping Stones Training
A range of courses looking at the environment, planning andobservation.
TRAINING PACKAGES
Online course preparing practitioners for the EYFS.
The Foundation Stage
The breadth of the Foundation Stage curriculum makes ongoing training amust if settings are to deliver a holistic programme that meets theneeds of all children
Acorn Childcare Training
- An introduction to the early learning goals: one-day course for thosenew to early years education. Provides an overview of the FoundationStage curriculum guidance and how the early learning goals can beachieved through an effective curriculum.
- The early learning goals: two-day course for those new to early yearseducation, providing in-depth information on its aims, the earlylearning goals and how they can be achieved through an effectivecurriculum.
- Making the early learning goals work: six half-days of traininglooking at all the goals within the six areas of learning in theFoundation Stage curriculum.
- Achieving the early learning goals through play: one-day coursecovering topics such as the balance between child- and adult-initiatedplay, the learning environment, linking key experiences to the earlylearning goals and the role of observation.
- Active learning in the Foundation Stage: one-day course exploringactive learning, its part in helping children to become independent andthe role of the adult in supporting active learning.
Beam Education
- Mathematics in the Foundation Stage: explores how the stepping stonescan make the Foundation Stage accessible to all children.
- Mathematics in reception: explores how young children learn, includingideas on mathematical progression, use of apparatus and structuring theenvironment.
- Creative mathematics across the curriculum in the Foundation Stage:how to implement the early learning goals in the most appealing ways foryoung children.
- Mathematics through role-play: this session will examine theopportunities and contribution that role-play areas can make tomathematical learning.
CHILDCARE CONSULTANCY
- Delivering the Early Years Foundation Stage: a course aiming todevelop practitioners' existing practice and to link with the EYFS.
Crechendo Training
- Curriculum planning workshop: one-day course demonstrating a holisticapproach to planning a developmentally appropriate curriculum.
- Early learning goals workshop: one-day course examining the goalsacross the six areas of learning.
- Early maths workshop: one-day course giving practical ideas on how tomake maths fun for children, including designing a maths game.
- Knowledge and understanding of the world: one-day course onstimulating learning opportunities.
- Language and literacy workshop: one-day course exploring how childrendevelop language and literacy skills.
Early Education Training and Resources Centre
- Introducing the Early Years Foundation Stage - opportunities andchallenges: one-day course.
- Developing foundations for language, listening and literacy: one-dayconference.
- Transition: early years principles: one-day conference.
- First things first - keeping young children at the heart of policy andpractice: one-day conference.
Experiential Play
- Cultural diversity - celebrating the global child: this training daywill explore a variety of communities, cultures and landscapes toinvestigate how we can use them as learning tools for our pre-fivesettings.
Futureworks
- Observing young children and planning for play: one-day course whichdiscusses observation techniques and how observations feed into asetting's planning structure.
The Maria Montessori Institute
- The art of storytelling: evening workshop focusing on the art ofstorytelling to engage children's attention, interest and imagination,with plenty of ideas offered to put into immediate use.
Montessori Centre International
- Art activities: one-day course covers the different elements of artand how to provide open-ended creative activities to enhance the child'sartistic development.
- Creativity in the nursery: explores the importance of creativity inthe Montessori early years curriculum.
- Observations - the key to good practice: one-day course.
- Story sacks: a one-day course encouraging literacy skills.
NIPPA: The Early Years organisation
- Curriculum planning and evaluation: a 16-hour course covering thedevelopment of short, medium and long-term plans, the use of observationto inform planning, and how resources can be collected and used tosupport children's learning.
- Developing children's creativity - art and design: this 15-hour courseaims to enable practitioners to see the creative potential in each childand to explore ways of realising it.
- Outdoor play: this 20-hour course explores the principles behindproviding stimulating outdoor environments for learning through play andreal experiences.
Playgroup Network
For information on Foundation Stage training, contact your localassociation office (see the Directory on page 35).
Pre-school Learning Alliance (PLA)
The Pre-School Learning Alliance has developed its own programme oftraining to ensure pre-schools and nurseries can meet all of therelevant regulatory requirements and achieve satisfactory or betteroutcomes in their Ofsted inspections. Courses are led by tutors expertin the field of early years and who understand the particular approachof pre-schools.
- Early Years Foundation Stage: helping settings prepare for the EarlyYears Foundation Stage.
- Promoting positive behaviour: a six-hour workshop or 10-hour coursedesigned to promote creating an environment in which children candevelop self-discipline and self-esteem in an atmosphere of mutualrespect and encouragement.
- The fundamentals of putting children first: this six-hour workshopexplores the ideas which form the basis for the right of all children tobe consulted on matters concerning their care and education.
Professional Support and Development (PSD)
- Planning for early years: a two-day course covering early learninggoals and planning.
- Art and the under-fives: a half-day course covering both theory andpractical ideas.
- Assessment in the early years: a one-day course covering why and howto assess.
Stepping Stones Training
- Back to basics: one-day course on learning through play, discoveringhow to use play as an effective teaching and learning tool.
- Clap your hands together: one-day course on making music fun.
- Once upon a time: one-day course on how to read to young children.
- One, two, buckle my shoe: one-day course on how to make early yearsnumeracy exciting.
- The world is a very big place: one-day course on introducing anunderstanding of the world.
Visual Learning Foundation
- Art in the Foundation Stage and at Key Stage 1: a two-day courselooking at the developmental stages of children's art-making; artmaterials; and how to develop language, creativity and learning throughart.
SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS
Settings can access information, advice and training from a wide varietyof charities to improve their care of young children with varied specialeducational needs
AUTISM & ASPERGER SYNDROME
British Institute of Learning Disabilities (BILD)
- Communication and autism: one-day course enabling participants to gaininsight into the complexities for individuals with autism andidentifying practical strategies around adjusting our language and theway in which we communicate.
- Understanding autism spectrum disorder (ASD): one-day courseconsidering the causes and effects of autism and ways of workingeffectively with people who have ASD.
Concept Training
- Sensory differences and the role of positive touch: gives an insightinto the arena of sensory differences and addresses the need for copingstrategies and positive interventions. Explores practical ways ofencouraging positive touch.
- Inclusive play: a course designed for anyone working in an inclusivesetting or trying to develop an inclusive approach to play.
- Working with children with Asperger syndrome: developing competence inidentifying difficulties associated with Asperger syndrome and how tosupport and work with children successfully.
- Understanding autistic spectrum disorder (ASD): this workshop givescarers an insight into the effects of ASD on everyday life and helps todevelop strategies to enable more effective working with ASD.
- A toolkit for autism: two-day event designed to provide an in-depthunderstanding of autism.
Futureworks
- Autism and Asperger: one-day course to develop a greater understandingof autism and Aspergers and how these affect children's personal,social, emotional and academic development.
The Maria Montessori Institute
- Understanding and supporting the child with an autistic spectrumdisorder: a one-day workshop focusing on understanding and supportingindividual children in the classroom.
Montessori Centre International
- Autism and Asperger syndrome: a seminar exploring strategies forsupporting practitioners, families and children with varying levels ofautism and Asperger syndrome.
National Autistic Society
- Introduction to TEACCH: one-day seminar covering the basic principlesof the TEACCH approach. A general awareness of autism is required.
- TEACCH two-day workshop: a course designed to familiarise participantswith autism and the various ways of working with people with autismspectrum disorders and their families.
- Three-day introduction to TEACCH: covers the basic principles of theTEACCH approach in more detail. A general awareness of autism isrequired.
NIPPA: The Early Years Organisation
- The pre-school child with autism - developing a visually structuredapproach: a 12.5-hour course looking at autism and effectiveintervention strategies in helping young children achieve their fullpotential.
Parents and Professionals & Autism (PAPA)
- Fundamentals of autism: a one-day course.
- Fundamentals of Asperger syndrome: a one-day course.
- The principles of TEACCH: a one-day introduction to the TEACCHapproach.
Scottish Society for Autism
- An introduction to autism spectrum disorders: a one-day workshop forpractitioners new to the field of autism, covering basic concepts andtheories relating to autistic spectrum disorders.
- A multi-element approach to managing behaviour: one-day course aimingto support practitioners who deal with challenging behaviour inindividuals with ASD.
- Communication and autism: promoting understanding and participation inthe classroom: one-day course aiming to explore the function and form ofcommunication and the difficulties associated with ASD.
- Let's play: understanding and developing core play skills: a one-daycourse exploring why children with ASD have difficulties with play.
The School of Infant Mental Health
- Behavioural signs of autism in infants: a three-day course inrecognising child cases of autism and early interventions.
BEREAVEMENT
Child Bereavement Trust
- Talking to children - every bereaved child matters: a half-dayworkshop focusing on the needs of vulnerable, bereaved children.
- Children and young people - loss, death and grief: a one-daymulti-disciplinary workshop.
- Creative ways of helping children and families: a one-day workshoplooking at the needs of children and creative ways of helping familiescommunicate with them.
National Children's Bureau
- Grief matters for children: promoting effective bereavement strategiesin schools: a one-day conference.
DEAF BLINDNESS
Sense
- Training for intervenors: one-week courses for those workingone-to-one with a congenitally deafblind child or adult.
DOWN SYNDROME
Down Syndrome Educational Trust
- Education and inclusion: one-day training course providing the keyinformation and practical knowledge necessary to enable participants tosuccessfully educate and include a child with Down syndrome inmainstream schools.
- Supporting the development and education of children with Downsyndrome aged nought to 16 years: one-day workshop giving an up-to-dateoverview of the research into the specific cognitive and behaviouralprofile associated with Down syndrome.
DYSLEXIA AND DYSPRAXIA
British Dyslexia Association
The BDA promotes early identification and support of children withdyslexia in schools to ensure they have opportunities to learn.
Conductive Education Centre
- Boxing clever: one-day course aimed at professionals who needpractical knowledge of mild problems such as difficulty with writing andorganisational skills, through to more severe dyspraxia and physicaldisability.
Futureworks
- Dyslexia and dyspraxia: a one-day course to develop a greaterunderstanding of dyslexia and dyspraxia and how these affect children'ssocial, emotional and academic development
I Can
- Dyspraxia - fundamentals and practice: a one-day course presenting adevelopmental and holistic perspective of dyspraxia and an insight intotheoretical and practical issues.
Montessori Centre International
- Helping children with dyslexia and dyspraxia: a practical guide forrecognising early signs of dyslexia and dyspraxia. Explores practicalideas for helping children.
EMOTIONAL AND BEHAVIOURAL DIFFICULTIES
Acorn Childcare Training
- Working with challenging behaviour: one-day course covering topicssuch as prevention and crisis behaviour management.
Children in Scotland
- Dealing with conflict, anger and aggression: workshop looking at thecommunicative function of some challenging behaviours.
Concept training
- Pro-active approaches to changing behaviour: course about supportingchildren to change their behaviour rather than the carer just managingor coping.
I Can
- ADHD and attention: this course offers an introduction to attentionproblems displayed by children with and without a diagnosis of ADHD/ADD,and provides proven strategies to help children to learn despite theirdifficulties with attention control.
- Social, emotional and behavioural development: a two-day course.
National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC)
- Child sexual abuse in the 21st century: three-day course aiming tofacilitate an understanding of child sexual abuse and its challenges forworkers and organisations.
- Domestic violence: aims to raise awareness of domestic violence andits impact on children.
The school of infant mental health
The School of Infant Mental Health offers integrated educational andtraining programmes for professionals working with under-fives. Coursesinclude career training, primary care, and specialised psychotherapeuticskills.
Social, Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties Association (SEBDA)
SEBDA, formerly the Association of Workers for Children with Emotionaland Behavioural Difficulties (AWCEBD), promotes excellence in servicesfor children who have emotional and behavioural difficulties.
FRAGILE X SYNDROME
Fragile X Society
Fragile X Society supports those with fragile X syndrome - the mostcommon cause of inherited learning disability - their families andprofessionals working with them.
HEARING IMPAIRMENT
Acorn Childcare Training
- Deaf awareness: a short course examining issues relating to deafnessin childcare settings.
- National Deaf Children's Society (NDCS)
The NDCS is the only UK charity dedicated to supporting deaf childrenand their families in overcoming the challenges of childhooddeafness.
LEARNING DISABILITIES
Acorn Childcare Training
- Working and caring for children with special needs: one-day course forthose working with children with special needs.
- Effective communication with disabled children and young people: aone-day course for all those whose role involves contact with childrenwhose disability may affect their communication.
The British Institute of Learning Disabilities (BILD)
- Creative communication: a one-day course considering a wide range ofinteractive approaches to support individuals to communicate their needsthrough various drama, music and art forms.
- Meeting the needs of people with profound learning difficulties:one-day course focusing on identifying and meeting communicationneeds.
Enable
Enable is the largest membership organisation in Scotland for peoplewith learning disabilities and family carers. Enable's services includelegal advice and, in many parts, direct care services for children andadults with learning disabilities.
Enable Ireland
Enable Ireland's children's services cover all aspects of a child'sphysical, educational and social development from early infancy.
Mencap
Mencap is the UK's leading disability charity working with children andadults with a learning difficulty and their families and carers, toimprove their lives and opportunities.
Orofessional Support and Development (PSD)
Working with children who have special needs: two-day course coveringlegislation, what special needs are, working with and planning forchildren with special needs.
PORTAGE
National Portage Association
Portage is a home-visiting service for pre-school children who havespecial needs. It is based on the principle that parents are the keyfigures in the care and development of their child. Portage's four mainactivities are: weekly home visits by a trained home visitor; weeklywritten teaching activities designed for each individual child andparent; teaching and recording carried out by the parent; and weeklysupervision by the home visitor.
- Training workshops: covering Portage history, theories and basicpractice. Suitable for parents and professionals working with pre-schoolchildren with special needs.
SPEECH AND LANGUAGE DIFFICULTIES
Afasic
Afasic seeks to raise awareness and to create better services andprovision for children and young people with speech and languageimpairments.
British Stammering Association
The British Stammering Association aims to help eliminate stammering inchildren by improving information for practitioners.
- BSA conference: in Telford, 7-9 September, offering presentations andworkshops for parents and stammering children, and adults whostammer.
I Can
One in ten children have a communication disability - that's 1.2mchildren across the UK struggling to express themselves. I CAN helpschildren with speech and language difficulties nationwide. It provides acombination of specialist therapy and education for children,information for parents, and training and advice for teachers and otherprofessionals. It runs several courses, including:
- Semantic and pragmatic language disorder in the classroom: this courseexplores the typical features of pupils described as having a 'semanticand pragmatic language disorder', where social interaction is the mainarea of disability, and focuses on a practical problem-solving approachto managing these types of communication and associated behaviourdifficulties in the classroom.
- Helping children develop language: one-day course
- Developing communication through music: this course provides ideas andstrategies for facilitating interaction and communication through simplemusical activities and songs.
- Upward spirals in language development: this is a complete course withproven strategies to increase levels of thinking, communication,confidence and fun in your early years setting. It provides effectiveways of making circle time activities effective, successful andenjoyable.
- Play and communication therapy: this course introduces a usefulapproach for working one-to-one with those children with communicationdisabilities who are unable to participate in assessment and therapy.This non-directive approach based on play therapy increases children'sability to participate in adult directive activities.
- Facilitating adult-child interaction: this course provides acomprehensive adult-child interaction training pack with fullfacilitation notes, participants' handouts and examples of models ofservice delivery to enable you to support parents, educationalists,therapists and students in promoting children's success incommunication.
VISUAL IMPAIRMENT
Royal National Institute for the Blind
The RNIB offers information, support and advice to more than two millionpeople in the UK with sight problems.
HEALTH AND SAFETY
Charities and training providers can help early years practitioners givechild health and safety the attention it deserves
CHILD HEALTH
ALLERGIES AND ANAPHYLAXIS
Allergy UK
Allergy UK increases understanding and awareness of allergy.
Anaphylaxis Campaign
Anaphylaxis is a severe allergic reaction but most children affected canbe accommodated in early years settings with the correct procedures. TheAnaphylaxis Campaign provides information and training courses on how tosupport children with allergies in schools and early years settings.
Asthma
Asthma UK/ASTHMA UK Scotland/ASTHMA UK CYMRU
All three charities support people with asthma and those who care andwork with people with asthma.
BEDWETTING
Education and Resources for Improving Childhood Continence (ERIC)
ERIC provides help to children suffering from nocturnal enuresis, themedical term for bedwetting, and the less common problems of daytimewetting. ERIC provides advice on bedwetting, daytime wetting,constipation and incontinence in children with special needs.
BURNS/SCALDS
Children's Fire and Burn Trust
The trust gives advice on drawing up a co-ordinated and comprehensivefire and burn prevention programme for schools and other childcarers andaims to improve the long-term rehabilitation of child burn victims. Italso promotes child safety awareness during Child Safety Week.
CANCER
Cancer Research UK
Cancer Research UK is the largest volunteer-supported cancer researchorganisation in the world.
CLEFT LIP
Cleft Lip and Palate Association (CLAPA)
CLAPA provides support for parents, and for people with the conditionand their families. There are more than 35 CLAPA groups - all run byvolunteers - and many other regional contacts across the UK. Theyprovide a specialist service for parents and professionals seeking helpin feeding babies with clefts, and support children affected byclefts.
- International conference: held annually.
COELIAC DISEASE
Coeliac UK
Coeliac disease is a condition caused by an inability to digest gluten,which often results in bowel symptoms and failure to gain weight.Coeliac UK supports and provides help to people with coeliac disease andthose with dermatitis herpetiformis (an itchy skin rash caused by glutensensitivity). Publications, including The gluten free food and drinkdirectory, can be bought direct from Coeliac UK.
DIABETES
Diabetes UK
Diabetes UK is the largest organisation in the UK working for peoplewith diabetes.
ECZEMA
National Eczema Society
The National Eczema Society gives advice and assistance on lifestylechanges and self-help measures to help keep eczema under control. Aschool information pack is available.
EPILEPSY
Acorn Childcare Training
- Epilepsy awareness: a short course examining epilepsy awareness inchildcare settings.
National Society for Epilepsy
- Short seminars: an introduction to epilepsy, appropriate for those whohave just started working with people with epilepsy and also for thosewho need an update on the latest information.
- Customised training: includes a full-day epilepsy course, seminars,conferences and visits.
HIV
National Children's Bureau
The National Children's Bureau provides information for people with HIV,including the booklet Developing support services for children, youngpeople and families living with HIV.
MENINGITIS
Meningitis Trust
The Meningitis Trust has produced an extensive range of information toraise awareness of the disease and offers support to people affected bymeningitis and meningococcal septicaemia.
- Meningitis awareness: courses run by the trust's nursery nurse officeraimed at nursery nurses, nannies and childcarers across the UK.
- Educational website: www.inmedonline.com
PAEDIATRIC CARE
Action for Sick Children
Action for Sick Children seeks to ensure that sick children alwaysreceive the highest standard of care in hospital, at home and in thecommunity, and that their special needs are taken into account and thewhole child is treated - not just the illness or injury. It can providea parent pack to help parents cope with and prepare for differentaspects of children's healthcare, and videos to help take away the fearschildren have about hospital.
Yorkhill NHS Trust
Yorkhill NHS Trust in Glasgow offers advice on care of a sick child,what to tell children before they go into hospital, supporting childrenpost-operatively and in facing bereavement.
CHILD SAFETY
ABC medical services
Courses are recognised by Ofsted and meet the requirements of theChildcare Approval Scheme:
- Anaphylactic shock awareness course (EpiPen and AnaPen): a two-hourcourse including basic resuscitation and training in using an EpiPen andAnaPen. Only approved EpiPen instructors teach this course, which isrecognised by the Anaphylaxis Campaign.
- Baby and child first aid and resuscitation: three-hour course coveringinformation for coping with medical emergencies involving babies andchildren.
- Epilepsy awareness and rectal diazepam administration: informal courseaimed at parents and child carers responsible for looking after a childwith epilepsy.
- Paediatric emergency aid: four-, six- or 12-hour course designed togive anyone responsible for looking after children the confidence todeal with medical emergencies.
Acorn Childcare Training
- Allergy and anaphylaxis awareness: one-day course includes handlingand preparation of food for chefs, managers and childcarers.
- Fire safety: two-hour course to help practitioners to be aware of thecauses of fire and what action to take in the event of a fire.
- First aid in childcare: a two-day first aid course, as required byOfsted for childcare settings.
- Paediatric first aid: a one-day course leading to appointed personstatus for those working with children.
- Sun safety: two-hour course in safe-sun practice. It looks at skindamage caused by the sun, precautions and policy considerations.
- Healthy eating for under-fives: a one-day course on healthy eating forall those with responsibility for the provision of meals.
ARMADILLO TRAINING
- Foundation food hygiene:
One-day course held at the workplace. Successful candidates receive aChartered Institute of Environmental Health certificate. They alsoreceive a CIEH Food Safety First Principles workbook. The aims are tointroduce the essentials of food hygiene and the causes and preventionof food poisoning. This enables settings to meet the requirements of theFood Safety Act and the Food Safety Regulations.There is a shortmultiple-choice test at the end of the course. Candidates must answer 20out of 30 questions correctly to gain their certificate.
- Intermediate food hygiene:
covers all facets of food production and enables practitioners toeffectively supervise food handlers on hygiene issues. For those whohave responsibility for quality assurance, one-to-one or on-the-jobinstruction or training, raw materials buying or sales.
- First aid: provides the skills practitioners need to become asuccessful first aider in the workplace. Explains life saving and firstaid techniques in line with current legislation. Areas covered includealerting the emergency services, resuscitation, respiratory andcardiovascular systems, asphyxia, epilepsy, eye injuries, burns,treatment of a casualty with head injury and accident reporting.
- Appointed person: one-day course which provides knowledge of first aidand provides the employer with an appointed person in line with firstaid regulations. By the end of the course candidates will be able toidentify potentially hazardous situations, alert emergency systems,provide basic first aid in the workplace and ensure first aid equipmentis maintained.
BRITISH RED CROSS
First aid for childcarers: courses run across the UK.
BVS Training
- Health and safety: a range of training toolkits including DVD or VHS,CD-Roms and lesson plans. Includes 'Promoting the health and hygiene ofchildren' and 'Maintaining the safety and security of children'.
Child Accident Prevention Trust (CAPT)
- General child safety: the content is designed specifically for eachgroup, and covers the provision and maintenance of play facilities, withtopics including playground equipment standards, developing maintenanceregimens, and achieving an appropriate balance between checking andmaintaining equipment.
Childcare consultancy
- Introduction to infection control: providing an understanding ofeffective infection control practice within a setting.
- Health and nutrition in the early years: how to achieve good practicein promoting healthy eating and ensure the nutritional needs ofpre-school children are met.
Common threads training
- Play and risk: a four-hour course introducing risk assessment.
Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths (FSID)
FSID promotes information on how to reduce the risk of cot death andsupports bereaved families. It is based in London and has eight regionalco-ordinators working across England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Futureworks
- Allergies, anaphylaxis and EpiPens: one-day course to raise awarenessof the dangers faced by allergy sufferers.
- Food modules: one-day course looking at food and behaviour;multi-cultural diets and food intolerances.
JACE Training
- Paediatric first aid: certificated course inspected and controlled bythe Health and Safety Executive. The 12-hour course includes lecturesand group discussions. Areas covered include the role of the appointedperson, health and safety of the early years environment, the first aidbox, emergency procedures, children's accidents and how to recordthem.
- First aid at work: four-day practical course, including anexamination. Areas covered are similar to the course above. Onsuccessful completion, candidates will receive a certificate that isvalid for three years.
- Basic food hygiene: for all food handlers. Eight hours' tuitionincludes lectures, group discussions, video and a 40-minute examination.Course regulated by the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health.
MATERNITY AND NANNY TRAINING (MNT)
- Emergency paediatric first aid: comprehensive half-day course directedspecifically at treating babies and children up to the age of seven.Topics covered by the course include managing an incident, first aidkits, unconscious casualties, choking and resuscitation.
- First aid course: two-day in-depth course covering all aspects offirst aid including dealing with anaphylactic shock.
The Maria Montessori Institute
- First aid for childcare workers: a two-day course designed for peopleworking with young children. The emphasis is on gaining confidence toput first aid into practice. The course meets Ofsted UK requirements andis valid for three years.
Newborn Nannies Training
- First aid for babies and young children: covers all aspects of firstaid, including emergency first aid, resuscitation and anaphylaticshock.
NHS ConNeCT
NHS ConNeCT is the professional and training development arm of theNational Childbirth Trust (NCT). Tutors offer a range of professionalworkshops.
Playgroup Network
For details of training opportunities, contact your local association(see page 35).
Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA)
RoSPA is involved in the promotion of safety in all areas of life -work, home, on the roads, in schools, at leisure and on (or near) water.Safety posters, signs and videos can be purchased from RoSPA.
St John Ambulance
A St John Ambulance certificate, valid for three years, is issued on acandidate's successful completion of assessment of each of the followingcourses:
- Early years first aid: 12-hour course. The course is recognised forthe purpose of registration as an early years professional and can beused to provide evidence to an NVQ assessor for those working towards anNVQ in Children's Care, Learning and Development. Topics included in thecourse are: first aid and national standards for daycare, the role of afirst aider, accident reporting and the first aid box, action planning,casualty action plans, the recovery position, infant and child choking,asthma and diabetes, seizures, allergic reactions and anaphylacticshock, head injuries, bleeding and shock, burns, sprains, strains andfractures, poisoning, bites and stings.
- Life-saver babies and children: four-hour course shows how to dealwith life-threatening conditions in babies and young children. Topicscovered on this course include managing an incident, casualtymanagement, initial assessment, cardio-pulmonary resuscitation andchoking.
- Emergency aid in schools: topics covered include burns and scalds,control of bleeding, resuscitation, incident management, miscellaneousconditions and treatment of an unconscious casualty.
South East Essex College
- First aid - early years: course time totals two six-hour days. Topicscovered include resuscitation and recovery position for babies andchildren, how to treat unconsciousness, shock, bleeding, poisoning,burns and fractures.
Tinies Childcare
- Paediatric care initiator: one-day course.
- Paediatric first aid: recognised by Ofsted, this 12-hour course coversthe skills required to save an adult, child or baby's life in anemergency.
- Food safety: one-day course aimed at any individual who has aresponsibility for handling food.
- Sports first aid: one-day course suitable for childcare practitionersworking with pre-school children and teenagers.
GENERAL SAFETY
National Day Nurseries association (NDNA)
- Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH) Level 2 Award inHealth and Safety in the Workplace
One-day course covering a wide range of health and safety issues,including legislation, welfare, workplace equipment and riskassessment.
- CIEH Level 2 Award in Conflict Resolution and Personal Safety
This course enables employees to protect themselves when faced withpotentially confrontational behaviour. The qualification has beendesigned to help organisations protect their staff as well as theirorganisational and operational effectiveness.
- CIEH Stress Awareness Certificate: raises awareness of the likelysources of work-related stress. Aimed at employees and also serves as anintroduction to the issue for more senior staff. It will enableemployees to contribute to strategies which combat work-relatedstress.
- CIEH Certificate in Risk Assessment Principles and Practice (General):employers and the self-employed have a legal duty to assess health andsafety risks. This course equips anyone carrying out a risk assessmentwith the necessary knowledge and skills.
Management
Effective management remains key to tackling the sector's ongoingchallenge of recruiting and retaining enthusiastic and capable earlyyears practitioners
Acorn Childcare Training
- Effective management skills: five-day course exploring managementskills and techniques and how to apply them. These include planning,objective-setting, questioning skills, communication, reviewingperformance, influencing skills, managing stress, monitoring andcontrol, effective meetings, leadership and time management.
- The effective deputy manager: three-day course for inexperienceddeputies. Topics include the supervisor role, presentation skills,effective communication styles, identifying staff development needs,developing thinking skills and strengthening assertiveness.
- The effective room leader: one-day course for those new to this role.Topics include motivating your team, training students, introducing achild to your room and customer care.
- Marketing support for small childcare businesses: the course providesthose running small childcare businesses with new skills and strategiesfor marketing and promoting their business.
- Sales support for small childcare businesses: provides those runningsmall childcare businesses with new skills and strategies for sellingand promoting their business.
- Business support for childcarers: this course, which is spread overfive 2.5 hour sessions, allows managers (both experienced and those newto management) and business owners (including childminders) to exploreways to grow and sustain their business.
- Creating an accessible environment: a half-day course introducingissues relating to inclusion and accessibility.
- Performance management for those working with children: a short coursegiving an overview of the different techniques available for managingperformance effectively.
- Leadership and management for those working in childcare: a shortcourse for those in a management role, giving an overview of the keyskills for effective leadership and management.
The Centre
In-house and open courses designed for people planning and managing inthe early years and childcare sector:
- Strategic planning and thinking: making government targets areality.
- Managing the team through change
- Moving into management
- Moving up in management
- Supervision skills
- Team building
- Managing time and workload
Common threads training
- All you need to know about management: a 21-hour course coveringtopics such as setting aims and objectives, understanding staffmotivation, positive team meetings and time management.
- Creative thinking for managers: a two-day course looking at how toapproach difficult situations creatively. l Good recruitment practice: atwo-day course.
- Improving practice through evaluation: a two-day course, endorsed bySkillsActive.
- Policy development: a two-day course.
- Supervision and appraisal skills: a three-day course.
- Leadership skills: a two-day course.
CHILDCARE CONSULTANCY
- Managing the Early Years Foundation Stage: this course will helpsenior staff support settings with the delivery of the EYFS.
Crechendo Training
- Management of early years practice: 60-hour course equipping qualifiedor experienced practitioners with an understanding of effective verbaland non-verbal communication, group dynamics, effective teamwork,team-building and conflict resolution.
- Management of early years settings: covers all aspects of professionalbusiness management, offering tuition on policies and proceduresrelating to the inspection and regulation of daycare settings under theChildren Act 1989.
Early Education training and resource centre
- Encouraging and supporting other practitioners to develop theirpractice: one-day course for teachers advising other Foundation Stagepractitioners. The course will include areas such as buildingcollaborative relationships and planning.
Early Excellence
- Leadership and management of integrated centres for young children andfamilies: this two-day course is designed to develop the managementskills of those leading integrated centres. It explores the personal andprofessional demands of leading integration and the key issues faced bythose leading multi-agency work. It will also consider how to prioritisethe change process and develop an action plan for change.
- Emotionally intelligent leadership of integrated centres: a one-daycourse about systemic and structural change processes, focusingparticularly on the emotional dimensions of leadership of integratedcentres at a time of dynamic change.
Experiential play
- Motivation day: are you in need of inspiration? Do you needenergising? This day is for all who are passionate about their jobs andwho want to gather together with like-minded professionals. The day isabout skills. There will be challenges, both physical and mental.
4Children
4Children, formerly Kids' Clubs Network, offers a range of businesssupport services, including:
- Payroll services
- Budget services
- Monthly accounting services
- End-of-year accounts services
Futureworks
- Business skills for childminders: a one-day course to developchildminders' skills in running a successful, sustainable business. lManagement and supervisory skills: a two-day course to developmanagement skills in supervision, appraisals and the overall goodmanagement of staff.
Kidscape
- Personal development: includes programme development, circle time,friendship skills, self-esteem, assertiveness, handling conflict, pupilsupport, and guidance and welfare.
- Staff development: includes stress management, developing teamwork,counselling skills, assertiveness training and working with parents.
Mudiad Ysgolion Meithrin
- Management and organisation: will help volunteers in Welsh-mediumsettings to be effective members of management committees. Topicsinclude appointing and supporting staff, financial matters, caring forthe buildings and resources, constitutions and policies, marketing andpublicity.
National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA)
The NDNA offers a wide-ranging business support and CPD programme.Course topics include: health and safety, insight into inspection andstress awareness, plus leadership and management for those interested inEarly Years Professional Status.
- Developing your day nursery: one-day seminar teaching participants howto make the most of starting up their own nursery business.
- Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM) Introductory Certificatein Team Leading (Level 2): four-day course aiming to give practising orpotential team leaders the foundation for their formal development inthe role. It covers basic team-leading skills including induction, therole of the team leader, organising yourself and your team, coaching,briefing the team, effective communication and action planning.
- ILM Introductory Certificate in First Line Management (Level 3): thisprogramme gives senior practitioners a solid foundation in all aspectsof management and is especially relevant for those holding a managementor team leadership role in their setting. Covers areas such as managingself, managing skills and competency, understanding organisations,managing change, managing activities, developing people andcommunication.
- ILM Introductory Diploma in Management (including essential skills tosupport the achievement of Early Years Professional Status assessment):EYP skills covered include experiential interviewing, interacting ingroup discussions, dealing with problems, presenting to others,effective written communication and effective decision making.
- Effective staff induction (early years specific): two-day ILM-endorsedcourse covering assessment skills, collecting and validating, gatheringevidence, induction systems and processes, staff handbooks and personalfiles and support systems.
- Recruitment, selection and retention: three-day ILM-endorsed course.Delegates analyse their role and the importance of their contribution torecruitment, selection and retention of staff in a variety ofscenarios.
- Managing change: one-day course helping delegates to understand whatdrives change, how individuals react to it, and communicating theimplications of change in a positive way.
- Finance for the non-financial: one-day course guiding delegatesthrough the day-to-day financial procedures needed to operate asetting.
- Cost vs quality: one-day course covering the various forms ofinvestment needed to sustain quality childcare delivery.
NIPPA: The Early Years Organisation
- Management training: specifically designed to meet the needs of teamleaders and managers.
NOEL QUINN
- Good leader, best team - an introduction to management and leadershipskills: topics include staff motivation and delegation, working withothers, developing the team and managing time and quality. It is idealfor first-time managers.
- Right person, right job - a guide to recruiting and selecting staff:workshop for those involved in recruitment. Topics include jobdescriptions and person specifications, equal opportunities, theapplication process and interview techniques.
- Employing people - a guide to good practice and the law for employers:looks at key legislation, and examines how the law and good practice ischanging.
- Finders keepers - strategies to help you retain good staff: looks atthe costs to a business of losing staff, and strategies to retainstaff.
- Working together: are you getting the best out of your team? (And isyour team getting the best out of you?): this workshop looks at findingout what makes a good team and understanding how everybody workstogether.
NORTHERN IRELAND CHILDMINDING ASSOCIATION
NICMA provides courses for developing a childminding business,including:
- Business development
- Development policies and procedures
- Good business practice
PLAYGROUP NETWORK
Contact regional associations direct for details of training on:
- Operational planning
- Administration
- Managing staff
- Committee work
PRE-SCHOOL LEARNING ALLIANCE (PLA)
- Behind the scenes: 13 three-hour workshops for all staff, volunteers,committee members and parents who want to develop new skills and coveraspects of managing pre-schools and parent and toddler groups. Topicscovered include money matters, roles and responsibilities, theimportance of written policies, appointing staff, health and safety,behaviour policy, insurance and the operation plan.
- Ready for action - creative, manageable and practical action plans foryour pre-school: six-hour workshops for all staff and committee memberslooking at the benefits of action plans and how to develop, implementand monitor them. Topics : how action plans can help to make the changesrequired after an inspection or as part of a cycle of continuousimprovement, and how to write an effective plan.
PROFESSIONAL SUPPORT AND DEVELOPMENT (PSD)
- Management: a two-day course covering the role of a manager, includingthe skills needed, planning ahead and theory.
- Time management: one-day course covering how to manage time,prioritise workload and negotiate time.
- Budgeting: one-day course covering budgeting skills.
TRAINING PACKAGES
Provides a range of certificated courses for managers focused onreflective practice.
Good practice
Meeting the minimum standards is no longer enough for settings to keepcustomers loyal and stay ahead of the growing competition within theearly years sector
CHILD BEHAVIOUR
Acorn Childcare Training
- Managing children's behaviour: one-day course on child behaviour,various techniques used to control behaviour and gender differences.
- No bullying here: this course looks at different approaches to dealingwith bullying, and creating a bully-free environment.
- Teaching children to resolve conflict without violence: this course isdesigned to help children recognise and deal with conflict without aviolent response.
British Institute of Learning Disabilities (BILD)
- Understanding challenging behaviour: introductory course exploring howto work with people who exhibit such behaviour.
- Moving on with challenging behaviour: one-day course aimed atpractitioners working with children who have a learning disability.
Concept training
- Better communication skills: an interactive workshop which shows howto use role-play, group work and presentations to develop effective waysto communicate.
Crechendo training
- Pro-active approaches to changing behaviour: supporting people to helpthem change their behaviour.
Early education training and resources centre
- 'Many languages, many heads, many brains!' - the Foundation Stage andEAL learners - developing the principle of inclusion: one-day coursethat considers the connection between EAL children's acquisition ofEnglish and their emotional, social and cognitive development, as wellas ways to develop inclusive provision and practice.
Early Excellence
- Promoting resilience in the early years
- Promoting resilience in vulnerable children
High/Scope Ireland
High/Scope Ireland has experience in running conflict resolutionworkshops using the High/Scope approach to conflict in the early yearssetting.
Kidscape
- Anti-bullying: how to resolve and reduce incidents.
- Promoting positive behaviour: course covering responsibilities, policyand procedures, code of conduct and problem-solving.
Kids
- Managing challenging behaviour: one-day course.
The learning scaffold
- Can't or won't listen to me: focuses on the reasons for difficultbehaviour in children and looks at practical ways to help both adultsand children develop positive solutions.
- Behaviour management - from the strategic to the interpersonal
NIPPA: The Early Years Organisation
- Managing children's behaviour in an early years setting: 15-hourcourse delivered in four 2.5-hour sessions for staff and two 2.5-hoursessions for parents.
Pre-School Learning Alliance (PLA)
- The fundamentals of putting children first: six-hour course tounderstand the factors in society which influence the rights which areaccorded to all children.
Professional Support and Development (PSD)
- Managing children's behaviour: one-day course covering reasons whychildren behave in different ways, techniques used to manage differentbehaviour and bullying.
Wales Pre-School Playgroups Association
- Managing behaviour: eight two-hour courses aim to enable participantsto work effectively with children in a playgroup setting and toencourage positive behaviour. Topics include how rules, routines and theenvironment affect behaviour; the use of reward and punishment; andpromoting acceptable behaviour.
CHILD DEVELOPMENT
Acorn Childcare training
- Introduction to child development: one-day course for new early yearspractitioners exploring areas of development, influences on developmentand the adult's role in stimulating child development.
- How children think and behave: half-day course for those new to earlyyears education.
Early Education Training and resource centre
- Interacting with others: one-day course exploring childdevelopment.
- Getting involved in social language and emotional well-being: thecourse explores the crucial role interaction and language play in achild's emotional development.
The Maria Montessori Institute
- Using positive language in the classroom: a workshop exploringlanguage patterns and how we can use language to influence behaviour,incorporating knowledge from the field of Neuro Linguistic Programming(NLP).
National Children's Bureau
- Practical group work skills: promoting emotional and social skills inyoung people: three-day course designed to enable participants tofacilitate group work confidently.
Northern Ireland Childminding Association
- Basic child development: eight-hour course giving a basic insight intochild development and how practitioners can enhance this.
CHILD PROTECTION
Acorn Childcare Training
- Child protection in childcare settings: one-day course delivered byexperienced child protection professionals.
- Child protection and domestic violence: this course covers the impactof domestic violence, the inter-agency response, legal remedies, andawareness of support, advice and services.
- Child protection and parents who substance misuse: covers issuessurrounding substance misuse, and awareness of available support, adviceand services.
- Child protection conferences, core groups and report writing: aims toenhance the knowledge and skills of practitioners involved in formalchild protection procedures.
- Working with parents and carers who have substance misuse issues: aone-day course for all professionals working with children or youngpeople where there are concerns about parental substance misuse.
BVS Training
- Child protection: a training toolkit with DVD or VHS, CD-Rom andlesson plans. Includes 'Understanding child protection' and 'Recognisingindicators of child abuse'.
Common Threads Training
- An introduction to child protection: a four-hour course.
Crechendo Training
- Child protection: one-day training course exploring child protectionissues.
The Maria Montessori Institute
- Child protection - safeguarding children and young people: a one-daycourse whose aim is to raise awareness of child abuse and the importanceof working together in order to safeguard and promote the welfare ofchildren and young people.
National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC)
The NSPCC provides learning materials that can be ordered online atwww.ncb-books.org.uk, including:
Protecting young children - a guide to recognising and responding tochild abuse. It also runs courses, including:
- Valuing diversity, safeguarding children: aims to equip participantsto safeguard all children through the application of good practice.
Kidscape
- Child protection: includes keeping children safe, signs andsymptoms.
CHILDREN'S PLAY AND LEARNING
Acorn Childcare Training
- Games and more games: with indoor, outdoor, noisy, quiet, small andlarge groups.
- Who am I?: this one-day course provides an introduction to playingwith drama for fun.
- Parachute games: this half-day workshop introduces a wide range ofparachute games.
- Mechanics of play: one-day workshop aims to equip practitioners with aworking knowledge of different forms of play and how these can be abasis for planning play opportunities.
Concept training
- Understanding the multi-sensory concept: practical skills for coveringmulti-sensory environments.
Crechendo Training
- Observation and assessment workshop: one-day course exploring howobservations and assessment help staff in their work and identify howbest to manage observation and assessment systems so that they aremanageable and useful.
Early Education Training and resource centre
- Whatever the weather: outdoor play in the Early Years FoundationStage: one-day course.
Experiential play
- Gathering games: encouraging children to become acutely aware of theirphysical self and how they use their motor skills is an important partof the early years.
- Art without drawing on the beach: the main aim of this trainingsession is to inspire and build confidence in adults working in pre-fivecentres to use the outdoors as an extension of their playroom.
NIPPA: The Early Years Organisation
- Promoting children's learning through adult-child interactions:six-hour workshop. Participants will be able to describe the vital roleof adults in supporting play.
- Introducing the NIPPA observation and recording tools: six-hour courseaimed at practitioners working with three- to five-year-olds.
- An introductory course in play and care for young children: ten or20-hour courses tailored to suit your needs and particularly suitablefor parents with children up to the age of seven who want anunderstanding of play and its importance in the development of children.Participants will also be given hands-on experience of playmaterials.
Northern Ireland Childminding Association
- High/Scope in the family daycare setting: eight-part course oftwo-hour sessions offering childminders ideas for providing a plannedprogramme of learning and developing children's thinking, mathematicaland language skills.
Wales Pre-school Playgroups Association
- What children learn in playgroup: eight-part half-hour weeklysessions, aimed at parents and playgroup workers with little or notraining.
- Introduction to children's play: course of 12 two-hour weekly sessionsaimed at new playgroup staff and parents. Topics include physical play,communicating with children, books and stories, food and cooking, musicand rhymes, child-centred creativity and imaginative play.
- Planning for learning in the early years: a 20-part course for peoplewho have completed the Diploma in Playgroup Practice or equivalent. Itaims to enable students to plan a developmentally appropriatecurriculum. Topics include how children learn, observation andassessment, planning a short-, medium- and long-term balanced curriculumand taking account of the six areas of learning.
CONSULTING WITH CHILDREN
Children in Scotland
- Creative play, inclusive play: one-day practical workshop to enablethose working with young children to deliver creative play sessions.
- Participation - consulting with children and young people with complexneeds: one-day workshop for all those working with children with complexneeds.
National Children's Bureau
- Listening as a way of life - enabling young children's participation:one-day course to help practitioners wanting to involve children indecision-making in their setting. Practitioners will also be asked toconsider how listening to young children helps to increase theircapabilities, self-esteem and sense of belonging.
NIPPA: The Early Years Organisation
- Consulting with young children: nine-part course designed to equippractitioners with the skills to consult effectively with youngchildren.
EARLY YEARS APPROACHES
High/Scope UK
High/Scope UK organises awareness sessions on the High/Scope approach,as well as the following:
- High/Scope implementation course: 18 two-and-a-half-hour sessions.Training combines practical activities, videos and discussion. As partof the course, the trainer will visit your setting. Areas coveredinclude the learning environment, the daily routine, assessment andadult-child interaction.The course requires participants to writeassignments on topics including reading, making observations andimplementing and assessing changes, and to keep a course journal. Allsessions must be attended. On successful completion, participantsachieve certification by High/Scope UK.
- In addition to this course, there are specialised curriculumimplementation courses for those working with children from birth tothree and children with special needs.
- High/Scope training course for childminders: eight two-and-a-halfsessions. Recommended by the National Childminding Association and meetsthe requirements of its Quality Childminding Charter for children'slearning development. Topics include: providing a planned programme oflearning, creating daily routines with children and developingchildren's thinking, mathematical and language skills.
- Trainer-of-trainers course: a 35-day course given by a High/Scopeconsultant trainer for people who wish to train others in the High/Scopeapproach. On successful completion, participants will receivecertification as a High/Scope- endorsed trainer qualified to runHigh/Scope courses in social services, education, independent andvoluntary sectors.
- Developing life skills in the early years: one-day awareness-raisingworkshop on fostering the development of life skills throughhigh-quality early years education.
High/Scope Ireland
High/Scope Ireland has experience in running courses on early yearslearning for people working with children in a variety of settingsincluding private, community and voluntary settings.
Montessori Centre International
- Work and play in Montessori nurseries: seminar exploring opportunitiesfor working and playing in a Montessori-prepared environment.
EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES
Acorn Childcare Training
- Equal opportunities: a one-day course suitable for all staff to helpthem recognise and deal with discrimination. It will also assist in thedevelopment of an equal opportunities policy. Topics include forms ofdiscrimination, benefits of an equal opportunities approach and how toapply equal opportunities in the workplace.
- Equal opportunities for childcarers: a one-day course for all staffworking in childcare settings to enable them to recognise types ofdiscrimination and how to deal with it.
- Anti-racist practice: a short course designed to examine issuesrelating to race and prejudice in childcare settings.
ALL TOGETHER TRAINING AND CONSULTANCY
Workshops include:
- Making inclusion work in settings
- Children's rights and anti-discriminatory practice
- Policy-making for inclusion and equality
- Building an inclusive environment
- Policy-making for SENCO/inclusion
- Working inclusively with parents and families
- Good practice for SENCOs
- Good practice in making a policy on SEN/inclusion
- Working with the Special Educational Needs Code of Practice
Concept training
- Inclusive play: workshop recommended for practitioners working atdeveloping an inclusive setting.
- Working non-aversively with children and adults with ASD: introductoryworkshop on autistic spectrum disorder, looking at the use ofnon-aversive approaches to behavioural change.
- An introduction for those meeting or working with people with specialneeds: workshop for people new to special needs.
Early Education Training and resource centre
- Working with children with English as an additional language: seminarfor practitioners wanting to develop their skills in supporting childrenwho have English as a second language.
- Meeting children's physical and emotional needs: course focusing oncreating a welcoming and inclusive environment.
Early Years Equality (EYE)
Early Years Equality is a registered charity working to promote raceequality in the field of early years provision. It provides equalitytraining and seminars to promote and support anti-racist practice.
National Association for Special Educational Needs (NASEN)
NASEN promotes the education, training, advancement and development ofall people with special educational needs. It has produced policies onthe early years, professional development, partnership with parents,curriculum access and learning support assistants, among others.
NIPPA: The Early Years Organisation
- Working with children who have special needs: a 20-hour courseenabling practitioners to develop the skills needed to plan structuredprogrammes to help children with SEN.
- Breaking down barriers - creating an awareness of sectarianism: atwo-hour course reflecting on anti-sectarianism in early years settingsand strategies to challenge sectarian behaviour.
- Breaking down barriers - challenging sectarianism in the early years:a six-hour course designed to allow participants to explore the effectsof sectarianism. They will explore their own thoughts on the subject,its effects within settings and strategies to challengesectarianism.
- Breaking down barriers - challenging discrimination in the earlyyears: a ten-hour course over a series of workshops looking at ways ofensuring equal opportunities. In line with Section 75 of the NorthernIreland Act (1998), the course covers gender, disability, culture andsectarianism. Participants will be encouraged to develop action plans toensure the development of equal opportunities within their setting.
Northern Ireland Childminding Association
- Extra special - working with children with additional needs: a 20-hourcourse covering causes of conditions, observing, planning and evaluatinglearning for special needs children, behaviour management and childprotection.
- Equal opportunities: an eight-hour course covering legislation,inclusion, respecting diversity, resources that promote equality ofopportunity and challenging attitudes.
Persona Doll Training
- Equality in practice: course built around Persona dolls, which are apowerful tool for exploring, uncovering and confronting racism and otherinequalities. This course is for early years practitioners, inspectorsand lecturers looking for effective ways to challenge bias.
Playgroup Network
Contact regional associations (see page 35) for details of courseson:
- Valuing diversity
- Inclusion
Pre-School Learning Alliance
- Promoting equality of opportunity: six-hour course exploring theeffects of prejudice and discrimination. Focuses on ways to create aninclusive and nurturing environment in the setting.
- Improving disabled access in early years settings: this two-hourworkshop gives an overview of the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA)for early years service providers. The workshop examines the duties inrelation to early years settings.
- Special educational needs and disabilities - a briefing for everyone:this ten-hour course provides all staff and managers in early yearssettings with an overview of the code of practice.
- Special educational needs and disabilities - the fundamentals ofinclusive practice: this one-day workshop covers important underpinningknowledge about issues that relate to inclusive practice for childrenwith special educational needs and disabilities.
- Special needs and disabilities - working with parents: a three-hourworkshop exploring ways of working effectively in partnership withparents of children with special educational needs and/ordisabilities.
- Special educational needs code of practice: workshops on the specialeducational needs code of practice.
Professional support and development (Psd) ltd
- Equal opportunities: two-day course covering understanding equalopportunities, discrimination, an anti-bias approach, dealing withabuse, and overt/covert discrimination.
Wales Pre-School Playgroups Association
- Playing together: this six-session two-hour weekly course aims topromote good practice in the integration and inclusion of children whohave special needs in a pre-school setting. It explores the benefits ofintegrated play for all children, as well as giving advice and supportfor best practice.
Working Group Against Racism in Children's Resources (WGARCR)
WGARCR has developed a range of one-day and half-day courses that willprovide a forum for parents and professionals to discuss appropriateplay and learning activities, resources and strategies for challengingracism in childhood care and education:
- Celebrating festivals in an anti-racist framework
- Presenting positive images in posters and displays
- Promoting first languages
NATIONAL STANDARDS AND INSPECTIONS
CHILDCARE CONSULTANCY
All courses link directly to the National Occupational Standards, thenational standards for daycare and childminding, Every Child Matters andthe Common Core of Skills and Knowledge Framework for the children'sworkforce.
Courses for home-based childcarers include:
- Registration support
- Getting ready for inspection
- Every Child Matters - five key outcomes
Courses for daycare and playwork staff include:
- Getting ready for inspection
- Managing change
- Working in a multi-disciplinary team
Children's services research group (CSRG)
- Childcare sufficiency assessments: scoping community needs - who, whatand where: one-day seminar for childcare managers and other children'sservices officers.
Institute of education
- Are you ready for inspection at the Foundation Stage?: this coursehelps prepare participants for inspection and to understand whatinspectors will be looking for.
Playgroup Network
Contact regional associations (see Directory) for details of courseson:
- Preparing for inspections
NUTRITION
The Kids' Cookery School
The Kids' Cookery School (KCS) provides children with the opportunity toaccess fun, educational, practical and hands-on cookery workshops.
The Maria Montessori Institute
- Nutrition and related childhood illness: an afternoon workshop ontopics such as the effect of the mother's lifestyle and diet on theinfant and child, the nutrition of the child and its relation to commonproblems, immunisation and illnesses.
National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA)
- Providing for nutritional needs in a setting: one-day interactivecourse, offering a mix of tutor delivery and group discussion onnutrition.
OUTDOORS
Acorn Childcare Training
- The great outdoors: one-day course exploring ways of using theoutdoors to stimulate development and as a learning tool. Topics includemeeting developmental needs, developing and extending outdoor playopportunities, creating opportunities for imaginative and creative playoutdoors and aiding sensory development.
Archimedes Training
Provides training to enable practitioners to create a safe nurturingexperience.
- Level 1, Forest schools skills: three-day course for practitionerswith little or no experience working in the outdoors. Basic woodlandskills covered, including flora and fauna.
- Level 2: five-day course aimed at individuals who want to assist aForest school practitioner (Level 3) in the delivery of Forest schoolsessions in a woodland environment.
- Level 3: course giving an opportunity to explore a different approachto using the outdoor environment to a higher level. You will investigatehow best to design and run a Forest school programme and look at how toapproach and apply it safely and effectively.
Bridgwater College Forest School
The school's training programme aims to train those wishing to set upand run Forest schools. It offers the following courses:
- Forest school visits: held monthly, these involve a briefpresentation.
- Adult taster days: an opportunity to spend a day in the woodland,finding out what Forest school is like and experiencing the same kind ofpersonal development that the children experience.
- Presentations and conferences: an outreach co-ordinator can come toyour setting to deliver a workshop.
- Training courses: part-time and intensive outreach courses areavailable anywhere in the UK. They range from a Level 1 Skills course,for someone who may be interested in developing their use of the outdoorsetting, to the Level 3 Forest School Leaders' Award. Courses includetechniques for building self-esteem, experiential learning and behaviourmanagement, delivering the Foundation Stage curriculum and practicalskills, including using tools and building fires.
Learning through landscapes
- Provides a range of training for teachers, governors, parents andschool grounds practitioners: topics covered include early yearsprovision for the outdoors and taking the formal curriculum outdoors.LTL's Early Years Outdoor Service helps settings plan and managehigh-quality creative outdoor play.
In addition to running training, LTL is developing networks ofaccredited trainers throughout the UK. The first network consists ofschool grounds professionals who can provide training events which helpschools identify how they can develop their outdoor space by involvingthe community.
PLAYWORK
Common Threads training
- Playwork basics: an introduction to playwork
- Playwork - theory and practice: a 14-hour course.
- A positive approach to behaviour: a seven-hour course.
- Play people: one-day introduction to the ethos of playwork for thosenew to the field.
- Playtime!: a two-day course for those working as lunchtime supervisorsin schools. The course takes a practical approach to putting playworkpractice into lunchtimes.
WORKING WITH PARENTS
Acorn Childcare Training
- Parents and their child's development: one-day course for new parentswanting to gain a better understanding of how they can assist theirchild's development.
National Children's Bureau
- Working in partnership with parents: one-day course providing guidancefor practitioners on how to overcome barriers and promote parentalparticipation in early years settings.
National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA)
- Observing practice and working with parents to inform practice:
One-day course focusing on the rationale for observing and helpingdelegates to understand the importance of developing and maintaininggood relationships with parents and carers.
NIPPA: The Early Years Organisation
- Involving parents/carers - creative partnerships in action: this12.5-hour course helps practitioners develop the skills required tocreate an effective partnership with parents.
Playgroup Network
Contact regional associations (see Directory) for details of courseson:
- Parenting support and working with toddlers
Pre-School Learning Alliance (PLA)
- Making links with parents and communities: ten-hour course forleaders, managers and experienced staff. This course will look at how todevelop action plans to improve partnerships with parents.
Professional Support and Development (PSD) Ltd
- Working with parents: this one-day course covers parentalparticipation, learning from parents, and valuing parents.
Twins and Multiple Births Association (TAMBA)
TAMBA provides information and support networks for families of twins,triplets and more. The charity has specialist support groups forone-parent families, parents of triplets or more, special needsfamilies, those who have lost one or more of a multiple-birth set, andparents who are expecting or have twins, triplets or more as a result offertility treatment.
Although primarily a parent support organisation, TAMBA also offersinformation for professionals.
DIRECTORY
ABC MEDICAL SERVICES
University of Reading, Building L30, London Road Reading RG1 5AQ
08452 300999
info@abcmedicalservices.co.uk
- www.abcmedicalservices.co.uk
ACORN CHILDCARE TRAINING
Park View, 34 Copperfields, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire HP12 4AN
0845 371 0953
info@childcaretraining.co.uk
www.childcaretraining.co.uk
Northern Ireland
Whiterock Training Centre, 91 Whiterock Road, Belfast BT12 7PG
0870 041 6244
ni@childcaretraining.co.uk
- www.childcaretraining.co.uk
ACTION FOR SICK CHILDREN
36 Jacksons Edge Road, Disley, Stockport SK12 2JL
0800 074 4519
www.actionforsickchildren.org
Affiliated offices are:
Scotland
Action for Sick Children (Scotland)
22 Laurie Street, Edinburgh EH6 5AB
0131 553 6553
Wales
Association for the Welfare of Children in Hospital (AWCH)
31 Penyrheol Drive, Sketty, Swansea SA2 9JT
01792 205227
AFASIC
2nd Floor, 50-52 Great Sutton Street, London EC1V 0DJ
020 7490 9410
info@afasic.org.uk
- www.afasic.org.uk
ALL TOGETHER TRAINING AND CONSULTANCY
70 Somerset Road, London NW5 1TU
Mary Dickins 020 7482 1165
marydickins@btinternet.com
ALLERGY UK
3 White Oak Square, London Road, Swanley, Kent BR8 7AG
Allergy helpline 01322 619898 (9am to 5pm weekdays)
Chemical sensitivity helpline 01322 619898 (9am to 5pm weekdays)
info@allergyuk.org www.allergyuk.org
ANAPHYLAXIS CAMPAIGN
PO Box 275, Farnborough, Hampshire GU14 6SX
01252 542029 Helpline 01252 542029
info@anaphylaxis.org.uk www.anaphylaxis.org.uk
www.allergyinschools.org.uk
ARCHIMEDES TRAINING
Woodlane House Farm, Countryside Centre, Woodlane, Stannington,
Sheffield S6 5HE
0114 258 5534
info@archimedes-training.co.uk www.archimedes-training.co.uk
ARMADILLO TRAINING
Suite 101, 60 Stoats Nest Village, Coulsden, Surrey CR5 2JN
020 8406 9466
contact@armadillotraining.co.uk www.armadillotraining.co.uk
ASTHMA UK
Summit House, 70 Wilson Street, London EC2A 2DB
020 7256 6075 Helpline 0845 701 0203 (9am to 5pm Monday to Friday)
info@asthma.org.uk www.asthma.org.uk
ASTHMA UK SCOTLAND
4 Queen Street, Edinburgh EH2 1JE
0131 226 2544
Helpline 0845 701 0203
www.asthma.org.uk
ASTHMA UK CYMRU
3rd Floor, Eastgate House, 34-43 Newport Road, Cardiff CF24 0AB
02920 435 400
wales@asthma.org.uk www.asthma.org.uk
BEAM EDUCATION
Maze Workshops, 72a Southgate Road, London N1 3JT
020 7684 3323
info@beam.co.uk www.beam.co.uk
BRIDGWATER COLLEGE FOREST SCHOOL
Bath Road, Bridgwater, Somerset TA6 4PZ
01278 441234
information@bridgwater.ac.uk www.bridgwater.ac.uk
BRITISH DYSLEXIA ASSOCIATION
98 London Road, Reading RG1 5AU
0118 966 2677
Helpline 0118 966 2677
info@dyslexiahelp-bda-dyslexia.org.uk www.bdadyslexia.org.uk
BRITISH INSTITUTE OF LEARNING DISABILITIES
Campion House, Green Street, Kidderminster, Worcestershire DY10 1JL
01562 723 010
enquiries@bild.org.uk www.bild.org.uk
BRITISH RED CROSS
44 Moorfields, London EC2Y 9AL
(course information) 0870 170 9222
(general) 0870 170 7000
www.redcross.org.uk
BRITISH STAMMERING ASSOCIATION
15 Old Ford Road, London E2 9PJ
020 8983 1003
mail@stammering.org
www.stammering.org
BVS TRAINING
London House, 271-273 King Street, London W6 9LZ
0845 6442866
info@bvs.co.uk
www.bvs.co.uk
CANCER RESEARCH UK
PO Box 123, Lincoln's Inn Fields London WC2A 3PX
020 7242 0200
www.cancerresearchuk.org.uk
THE CENTRE
140 Old Street, London EC1V 9BJ
020 7490 3030
contact@the-centre.co.uk
www.the-centre.co.uk
CHILD ACCIDENT PREVENTION TRUST
4th Floor, Cloister Court, 22-26 Farringdon Lane, London EC1R 3AJ
020 7608 3828
safe@capt.org.uk www.capt.org.uk
CHILD BEREAVEMENT TRUST
Aston House, High Street, West Wycombe, Buckinghamshire HP14 3AG
01494 446648
training@childbereavement.org.uk www.childbereavement.org.uk
CHILDCARE CONSULTANCY
23 Dixon Road, London SE25 6TZ,
0208 409 0202
info@childcareconsult.co.uk www.childcareconsult.co.uk
CHILDREN IN SCOTLAND
Princes House, 5 Shandwick Place, Edinburgh EH2 4RG
0131 228 8484
info@childreninscotland.org.uk www.childreninscotland.org.uk
CHILDREN'S FIRE AND BURN TRUST
38 Buckingham Palace Road, London SW1W 0RE
020 7233 8333
info@childrensfireandburntrust.org.uk
CLEFT LIP AND PALATE ASSOCIATION (CLAPA)
1st Floor, Green Man Tower, 332 Goswell Road, London EC1V 7LQ
020 7833 4883
info@clapa.com www.clapa.com
COELIAC UK
Suites A-D Octagon Court, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire HP11 2HS
01494 437 278
Helpline 0870 444 8804
www.coeliac.co.uk
COMMON THREADS TRAINING
Wessex House, Upper Market Street, Eastleigh, Hampshire SO50 9FD
07000 785215
info@commonthreads.co.uk
www.commonthreads.co.uk
CONCEPT TRAINING
15 Beach Street, Morecambe, Lancashire LA4 6BT
01524 832 828
info@concept-training.co.uk www.concept-training.co.uk
CONDUCTIVE EDUCATION CENTRE
The Hornsey Trust, 54 Muswell Hill, London N10 3ST
020 8444 7242
info@hornseytrust.org.uk
www.hcec.org.uk
CONTINYOU
17 Old Ford Road, London E2 9PJ
020 8709 9933
laura.luxton@continyou.org.uk www.continyou.org.uk
CRECHENDO TRAINING
1 Grange Mills, Weir Road, London SW12 ONE
020 8772 8160
training@crechendo.com www.crechendotraining.co.uk
CHILDREN'S SERVICES RESEARCH GROUP (CSRG)
www.csrg.org.uk
DIABETES UK
10 Parkway, London NW1 7AA
020 7424 1000
Careline 0845 120 2960 (9am to 5pm Monday to Friday)
info@diabetes.org.uk www.diabetes.org.uk
Regional offices in England are:
North West
First Floor, The Boultings, Winwick Street, Warrington WA2 7TT
01925 653281
n.west@diabetes.org.uk
Northern and Yorkshire
Sterling House, 22 St Cuthbert's Way, Darlington DL1 1GB
01325 488606
north&yorks@diabetes.org.uk
West Midlands
1 Eldon Court, Eldon Street, Walsall WS1 2JP
01922 614500
w.midlands@diabetes.org.uk
South-West
PO Box 326, Exeter EX2 9XJ
020 7424 1136
south.west@diabetes.org.uk
National regional offices are:
Scotland
Savoy House, 140 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3DH
0141 332 2700
scotland@diabetes.org.uk
Wales
Diabetes UK Cymru, Quebec House, Castlebridge, Cowbridge Road East,
Cardiff CF11 9AB
029 2066 8276
wales@diabetes.org.uk
Northern Ireland
Suite 8, Bridgewood House, Newforge Business Park, Newforge Lane,
Belfast BT9 5NW
028 9066 6646
n.ireland@diabetes.org.uk
DOWN SYNDROME EDUCATIONAL TRUST
The Sarah Duffen Centre, Belmont Street, Southsea, Hampshire PO5 1NA
023 9285 5330
enquiries@downsed.org
www.downsed.org
EARLY EDUCATION TRAINING AND RESOURCE CENTRE
136 Cavell Street, London E1 2JA
020 7539 5400
office@early-education.org.uk
www.early-education.org.uk
EARLY EXCELLENCE
The Old School, New Hey Road, Outlane, Huddersfield HD3 3YJ
01422 311314
liz@earlyexcellence.com
www.earlyexcellence.com
EARLY YEARS EQUALITY (EYE)
PO Box 3428, Chester CH1 9BX
01244 310 569
eyequality@tiscali.co.uk
www.earlyyearsequality.org
EDUCATION AND RESOURCES FOR IMPROVING CHILDHOOD CONTINENCE (ERIC)
34 Old School House, Britannia Road, Kingswood, Bristol BS15 8DB
Helpline 0845 370 8008 (10am to 4pm Monday to Friday)
www.enuresis.org.uk
ENABLE
6th Floor, 7 Buchanan Street, Glasgow G1 3HL
0141 226 4541
Helpline 0870 7870554
enable@enable.org.uk www.enable.org.uk
ENABLE IRELAND
32F Rosemount Park Drive, Rosemount Business Park, Ballycoolin Road,
Dublin 11, Republic of Ireland
00353 (0)1 872 7155
communications@enableireland.ie www.enableireland.ie
EXPERIENTIAL PLAY
Hyde Park Business Centre, 31-32 Mollinsburn Street, Glasgow G21 4SF
0141 557 3304
info@experientialplay.com www.experientialplay.com
FOUNDATION FOR THE STUDY OF INFANT DEATHS
Artillery House 11-19 Artillery Row, London SW1P 1RT
020 7233 2090
Helpline 0870 787 0554
office@fsid.org.uk www.sids.org.uk/fsid
FRAGILE X SOCIETY
Rood End House, 6 Stortford Road, Great Dunmow, Essex CM6 1DA
01371 875100
info@fragilex.org.uk www.fragilex.org.uk
4CHILDREN
City Reach, 5 Greenwich View Place, London E14 9NN
020 7512 2112
info@4children.org.uk www.4children.org.uk
FUTUREWORKS
Unit 79, Capital Business Centre
22 Carlton Road, South Croydon, Surrey CR4 0BS
020 89162078
training@futureworks.org.uk
HIGH/SCOPE UK
Unit 8 Anerley Business Centre
Anerley Road, London SE20 8BD
0870 777 7680
highscope@btconnect.com www.high-scope.org.uk
HIGH/SCOPE IRELAND
NIPPA, 6c Wildflower Way, Apollo Road, Belfast BT12 6TA
028 9066 2825
highscope@nippa.org www.nippa.org
I CAN
8 Wakley Street, London EC1V 7QE
0845 225 4071
www.ican.org.uk
INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION
Institute of Education, CPD/INSET, 20 Bedford Way,
London WC1H 0AL
020 7612 6000
info@ioe.ac.uk www.ioe.ac.uk
JACE TRAINING
Jancett House, 16 Stanley Park Road, Wallington, Surrey SM6 0EU
020 8773 8146
info@jacetraining.co.uk www.jacetraining.co.uk
KIDS
6 Aztec Row, Berners Road
London N1 0PW
020 7359 3635
enquiries.london@kids.org.uk
www.kids.org.uk
THE KIDS' COOKERY SCHOOL
107 Gunnersbury Lane, Acton, London W3 8HQ
020 8992 8882
info@thekidscookeryschool.co.uk
www.thekidscookeryschool.co.uk
KIDSCAPE
2 Grosvenor Gardens, London SW1W 0DH
020 7730 3300
training@kidscape.org.uk www.kidscape.org.uk
THE LEARNING SCAFFOLD
5 Almond Close, Old Basing, Basingstoke, Hants RG24 7DW
01256 353217
info@thelearningscaffold.co.uk www.thelearningscaffold.co.uk
LEARNING THROUGH LANDSCAPES
3rd Floor, Southside Offices, The Law Courts, Winchester SO23 9DL
01962 846497
schoolgrounds-uk@ltl.org.uk www.ltl.org.uk
THE MARIA MONTESSORI INSTITUTE
26 Lyndhurst Gardens, London NW3 5NW
020 7435 3646
info@mariamontessori.org
www.mariamontessori.org
MATERNITY AND NANNY TRAINING (MNT)
Unit 10 Rooks Farm, The Street, Rotherwick, Hampshire RG27 9BG
0870 220 2657
info@mnttraining.co.uk www.mnttraining.co.uk
MENCAP
123 Golden Lane, London EC1Y 0RT
020 7454 0454
information@mencap.org.uk www.mencap.co.uk
MENINGITIS TRUST
Fern House, Bath Road, Stroud, Gloucestershire GL5 3TJ
01453 768000 National 24-hour nurse-led helpline 0845 600 0800
info@meningitis-trust.org.uk www.meningitis-trust.org
Scotland
PO Box 19554, Renfrew PA4 0JD
0845 120 2123 (also fax)
scotland@meningitis-trust.org
Wales
PO Box 98, Camarthen SA31 2YG
0845 120 4886 (also fax)
wales@meningitis-trust.org
Northern Ireland
PO Box 207, Newtownards BT23 8ZT
0845 120 0663 (also fax)
ni@meningitis-trust.org
Republic of Ireland
PO Box 102, Bray, Co. Wicklow
01276 2050
CaroleN@meningitis-trust.ie
MONTESSORI CENTRE INTERNATIONAL
18 Balderton Street, London W1K 6TG
020 7493 0165
mci@montessori.ac.uk www.montessori.uk.com
MUDIAD YSGOLION MEITHRIN
Mudiad Ysgolion Meithrin, Boulevard Street, St Brievc, Aberystwyth,
Ceredigion
01970 639639
www.mym.co.uk
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS
Nasen House, 4-5 Amber Business Village, Amber Close, Amington,
Tamworth, Staffordshire B77 4RP
01827 311500
welcome@nasen.org.uk www.nasen.org.uk
NATIONAL AUTISTIC SOCIETY
393 City Road, London EC1V 1NG
020 7903 3599 (information centre)
0115 911 3363 (training and events)
Helpline 0845 070 4004
info@nas.org.uk www.nas.org.uk
NATIONAL CHILDBIRTH TRUST
Alexandra House, Oldham Terrace, Acton, London W3 6NH
0870 444 8707
enquiries@nct.org.uk
www.nct.org.uk
NHS CONNECT
020 8993 3441
connect@national-childbirth-trust.co.uk
NATIONAL CHILDREN'S BUREAU
Early Childhood Unit, 8 Wakley Street, London EC1V 7QE
020 7843 6000
training@ncb.org.uk www.ncb.org.uk
NATIONAL DAY NURSERIES ASSOCIATION (NDNA)
Oak House, Woodvale Road, Brighouse, West Yorkshire HD6 4AB
0870 774 4244
info@ndna.org.uk www.ndna.org.uk
NATIONAL DEAF CHILDREN'S SOCIETY
15 Dufferin Street, London EC1Y 8UR
020 7490 8656
Helpline 0808 800 8880
ndcs@ndcs.org.uk www.ndcs.org.uk
NATIONAL ECZEMA SOCIETY
Hill House, Highgate Hill, London N19 5NA
020 7281 3553 Helpline 0870 241 3604 (Monday to Friday 8am to 8pm)
helpline@eczema.org
www.eczema.org
NATIONAL PORTAGE ASSOCIATION
PO Box 3075, Yeovil, Somerset BA21 3FB
info@portage.org.uk
www.portage.org.uk
NATIONAL SOCIETY FOR EPILEPSY
Chesham Lane, Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire SL9 0RJ
01494 601 300
Helpline 01494 601400
jennifer.hunt@epilepsynse.org.uk
www.epilepsynse.org.uk
NATIONAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN (NSPCC)
National Training Centre, 3 Gilmour Close, Beaumont Leys, Leicester LE4
1EZ
0116 234 7200
Helpline 0808 800 5000
infounit@nspcc.org.uk www.nspcc.org.uk
NEWBORN NANNIES TRAINING
33 Anglesea Road, Orpington, Kent BR5 4AN
01689 898484
newborn.nannies@btconnect.com
NIPPA: THE EARLY YEARS ORGANISATION
6c Wildflower Way, Apollo Road, Belfast BT12 6TA
028 9066 2825
mail@nippa.org www.nippa.org
NOEL QUINN
Governors House, 153 Cape Road, Warwick CV34 5DJ
01926 409124
info@noelquinn.co.uk www.noelquin.co.uk
NORTHERN IRELAND CHILDMINDING ASSOCIATION
16-18 Mill Street, Newtownards BT23 4LU
028 91 811015
info@nicma.org www.nicma.org
PARENTS AND PROFESSIONALS & AUTISM (PAPA)
PAPA Resource Centre, Donard House, Knockbracken Healthcare Park,
Saintfield Road, Belfast BT8 8BH
02890 401729
info@autism.org
www.autismni.org
PERSONA DOLL TRAINING
51 Granville Road, London N12 0JH
020 8446 7591
personadoll@ukgateway.net
www.persona-doll-training.org
PLAYGROUP NETWORK
PO Box 401, Middlesbrough, Cleveland TS5 4WZ
0191 275 3827
playgroupnetwork@playgroup. fsnet.co.uk www.playgroup-network.org.uk
Cleveland 01642 354301
Derwentside 01207 503054
East Sussex 01580 881390
Gloucestershire 01452 541244
Hampshire 01264 391107
London 020 8913 8825 (Richmond)
020 8981 6052 (Tower Hamlets)
020 8673 8877 (Wandsworth)
Norfolk 01603 219300
Stockport 0161 431 4909
Tyne and Wear 0191 275 3837 (Newcastle) 0191 514 1471 (Sunderland)
West Sussex 01798 815773
West Yorkshire 01274 308725
PRE-SCHOOL LEARNING ALLIANCE
The Fitzpatrick Building, 188 York Way, London N7 9AD
020 7697 2500
info@pre-school.org.uk www.pre-school.org.uk
PROFESSIONAL SUPPORT AND DEVELOPMENT
5 Mottingham Road, Edmonton, London N9 8DX
020 8364 7700/22/33
psdltd@aol.com
ROYAL NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND (RNIB)
105 Judd Street, London WC1H 9NE
020 7388 1266
Helpline 0845 766 9999
helpline@rnib.org.uk www.rnib.org.uk
Scotland
Dunedin House, 25 Ravelston Terrace, Edinburgh EH4 3TP
0131 311 8500
rnibscotland@rnib.org.uk
Northern Ireland
40 Linenhall Street, Belfast BT2 8BA
02890 329373 or 02890 278119
rnibni@rnib.org.uk
Wales
RNIB Cymru, Trident Court, East Moors Road, Cardiff CF24 5TD
029 2045 0440
gwenda.fitzpatrick@rnib.org.uk
ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF ACCIDENTS (RoSPA)
Head Office
Edgbaston Park, 353 Bristol Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham B5 7ST
0121 248 2000
0870 777 2227 (training)
help@rospa.com
www.rospa.com
Scotland
Livingstone House, 43 Discovery Terrace, Heriot-Watt University,
Research Park, Edinburgh EH14 4AP
0131 449 9378
Wales
7 Cleeve House, Lambourne Crescent, Cardiff CF14 5GJ
02920 250600
Northern Ireland
Nella House, 4 Dargan Crescent, Dargan Wholesale Park, Belfast BT3 9JP
02890 501160
ST JOHN AMBULANCE
27 St John's Lane, London EC1M 4BU
020 7324 4000
info@sja.org.uk
www.sja.org.uk
SCHOOL OF INFANT MENTAL HEALTH
27b Frognal, London NW3 6AR
020 7433 3112
SIMH2000@aol.com www.infantmentalhealth.com
SCOTTISH SOCIETY FOR AUTISM
Hilton House, Alloa Business Park, Whins Road, Alloa, Clackmannanshire
FK10 3SA
01259 720044
info@autism-in-scotland.org.uk
www.autism-in-scotland.org.uk
SENSE
Sense, 11-13 Clifton Terrace, Finsbury Park, London N4 3SR
0845 127 0060
info@sense.org.uk
www.sense.org.uk
SOCIAL, EMOTIONAL AND BEHAVIOURAL DIFFICULTIES ASSOCIATION (SEBDA)
Dr Ted Cole, Executive director, SEBDA Head Office, Church House, 1 St
Andrew's View, Penrith, Cumbria CA11 7YF
01768 210510
admin@sebda.org www.sebda.org
SOUTH EAST ESSEX COLLEGE
Luker Road, Southend-on-Sea, Essex SS1 1ND
01702 220400
marketing@southend.ac.uk www.southend.ac.uk
STEPPING STONES TRAINING
PO Box 2141, Clifton, Bristol BS99 7TW
0117 923 7444
07881 922433
info@steppingstonestraining.com
www.steppingstonestraining.com
TINIES CHILDCARE
Elysium Gate, 126-128 New Kings Road, London SW6 4LZ
020 7384 0322
training@tinieschildcare.com www.tinieschildcare.com
TRAINING PACKAGES
16 Oakhurst Rise, Cheltenham, Gloustershire GL52 6JU
01242 577023
www.training-packages.com
TWINS AND MULTIPLE BIRTHS ASSOCIATION (TAMBA)
2 The Willows, Gardner Road, Guildford, Surrey GU1 4PG
0870 770 3305 (9.30am to 5pm Monday to Friday)
Twinline, a confidential listening support and information service 0800
138 0509 (7pm to 10pm weekdays and 10am to 10pm weekends)
enquiries@tamba.org.uk www.tamba.org.uk
VISUAL LEARNING FOUNDATION
Robert Blair School, Brewery Road, London N7 9QJ
020 7609 7155
admin@visuallearningfoundation.org
www.visuallearningfoundation.org
WORKING GROUP AGAINST RACISM IN CHILDREN'S RESOURCES (WGARCR)
Unit 34, Eurolink Business Centre, 49 Effra Road, London SW2 1BZ
020 7501 9992 (also fax)
positiveimages@wgarcr.org.uk www.wgarcr.org.uk
WALES PRE-SCHOOL PLAYGROUPS ASSOCIATION
Ladywell House, Newtown, Powys SY16 1JB
01686 624573
info@walesppa.org www.walesppa.org
YORKHILL NHS TRUST
Jill Vines, Play co-ordinator, Yorkhill NHS Trust, Dalnair Street,
Glasgow G3 8SJ
0141 201 0000
jill.vines@yorkhill.scot.nhs.uk
www.yorkhill.scot.nhs.uk
