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Early Help and Children and Family Service

Description: Early Help ensures every family gets the right support at the right time

Description: The Early Help Service continues to provide advice, support and guidance to families and professionals in different ways.

Description: A range of training for staff and professionals delivering early help and support in Tower Hamlets.

Description: School business managers, head teachers and their governing bodies should familiarise themselves with this.

Description: The Statutory Framework for Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) sets standards for an integrated approach to the learning, development and care of children from birth to 5 years old, including the reception year of school. All schools and Ofsted-registered early years providers (often called early years settings), must follow the EYFS, including childminders, pre schools, nurseries and school reception classes.

Description: Tower Hamlets Early Years Service believes that each child is an individual with their own unique developmental profile. We are committed to inclusion and meeting the needs of all children. We use the term 'additional needs' instead of 'special educational needs' – as used in The Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Code of Practice: Birth to 25 – 2015 (SEND Code of Practice 2015) in order to avoid language which labels children as different or separate.

Description: Tower Hamlets Educational Psychology Service provides a bank of resources to help prepare children, young people and parents on what can be a distressing time in their lives.