to see the journey from finding out about the offer, being checked and offered places, and taking them up is as swift and simple as possible. As a whole local authority duty, not just early years, we are also focusing on ensuring the offer is integrated with children’s centre and other outreach services like health visiting.
What happens afterwards? A few people have asked me what we will be doing in April 2015, when the contract ends. I say that after we have a little break and a celebration, it will be business as usual! The two year old offer of course will be here to stay and we will be here to help anyone who wants it. Hempsall’s is 15 years old this year, and we’ve maintained our training, research and consultancy offers, so we will have over 300 training courses to deliver, various work with children’s centre reviews and Ofsted preparation, and lots of smaller contracts to deliver like our parent volunteering, business support, and childcare sufficiency research. There’s always plenty to do in early years!”
Post-script
Increasing the Reflective Functioning Capacity of Early
Years Professionals Dawn Cannon
In the May/June edition of CCLR I wrote a piece entitled Increasing the Reflective Functioning Capacity of Early Years Professionals.
Since writing this piece I have been leading a multi-professional working group to develop an interdisciplinary on-line foundation level course in Infant Mental Health. The course will be accredited by The University of Warwick and the Association of Infant Mental Health (AIMH UK) it will carry Continuous Professional Accreditation (CPD) take 3 months to complete in your own time and costs £120. It is designed to enable you to interpret the behaviours of children, perceive their mental life and respond to the needs of children in your care. Our first students are due
Director Achieving Two Year Olds James Hempsall
to commence Infant Mental Health Online (IMHOL) in January 2015 and Early Years Practitioners are part of our pilot.
If any one would like more information please contact
d.cannon@
warwick.ac.uk
to register your interest please email your details to
www.aimh.org.uk/
Honorary Secretary AIMH (UK)
Senior Teaching Fellow University of Warwick
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