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Early Years and Childcare

Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic information
Early Years Childcare and PVI SEND Information Report Privacy Notice
ONLINE Form: Early Years and Childcare SEND Information Report
Useful Services
Resources for Early Years Providers

Lots of support available through the Early Years Team, click here for more information

  • Home Learning
  • Safeguarding information
  • Information and Training Resources​
  • ​Talk Halton – click here

Training programmes and brochures can be found on the Training page, click here

Pre-Schools

The following Pre-schools have submitted their SEND Information Report:

Nursery Schools
Day Nurseries

The following Day Nurseries have submitted their SEND Information Report:

Childminders

The following childminders have submitted their SEND Information Report:

Out of School Clubs (OSC)

The following Out of School Clubs have submitted their SEND Information Report:

Disability Access Fund (DAF) Early Years

From April 2017, the Government introduced the Disability Access Fund (DAF) this is new funding for early years childcare providers to support children with disabilities or special educational needs.

DAF is to support access to early years childcare provision by supporting providers in making reasonable adjustments to their settings and/or help build inclusive capacity (this may be for the child in question or to benefit children as a whole attending the setting).

Detailed information about the DAF eligibility criteria, entitlement, documentary evidence required, procedure, payment and application process can be found in the: