The chosen words then for early support professionals were ‘keyworker’ or ‘key worker’
In the early 1990s there were two or three local projects in the UK that were providing a keyworker service to families whose baby or infant had significant special needs. To my knowledge, two of these were in Wal
Read more: How early child and family support began in the UK
‘... some babies and infants ... do not fit into traditional education/school systems or traditional health/hospital systems. This is new work needing new collaborative thinking.’
Education and health are two major parts of early child and family support. A third, not discussed in this articl
Building the case for moving early child and family support out of hospitals into education settings
The two sessions I describe below are constructed from my experience over many years. There are three subheadings:
From Center on the Developing Child
'We know that responsive relationships and language-rich experiences for young children help build a strong foundation for later success in school. The rapidly advancing frontiers of 21st-century biological sciences now provide compelling evidence that the foundat
This essay is adapted from the original service manual ‘Team Around the Child: Multi-agency service Co-ordination for children with complex needs and their families’ by Peter Limbrick, Interconnections UK, 2001
Introduction
The manual from which this paper is adapted is intended for managers
Read more: The Foundations of the Team Around the Child model (TAC)
Free NHS sight tests will be made available within all special school settings, the government and NHS England have confirmed
From government website:
Additional testing in special education day schools will be rolled out next year, adding to the commitment in the NHS Long Term Plan to offer sight t
Cartoon © Martina Jirankova-Limbrick 2011