This collaborative programme is part of the Early Years Partnership co-production offer, funded by DfE. The co-production Action Learning Sets bring together practitioners and parent carers to build relationships between families and services, increase awareness of the impact of disability on families and enable more effective, positive communication. This programme will enable families of disabled children and practitioners in the Early Years SEND field to work in active partnership, make shared decisions and listen to each other to put the needs of children at the centre of strategy and support. Understanding the experience of families can help practitioners to develop a better start to the working relationship with parent carers. Families empowered to voice their experience can come together to create positive changes. You will access tools to support you as you identify and take positive actions and measure your success.

The Action Learning Sets consist of:

• 3 sessions to take place before February 2023

• Up to 30 participants

• We invite participants to attend all three meetings. This helps your area to build consistency and get most out of this specialist support.

• Your feedback will be really important for this DfE funded project and will help us to continue this important work.

PLEASE NOTE - THE FIRST DATE WILL NOW BE 8TH NOVEMBER AND NOT 23RD SEPTEMBER AS PREVIOUSLY ADVERTISED.

Action Learning Set 1 - 8th November 2022 - 10am-12:30pm

This will cover what participants understand about parent engagement and co-production. We encourage participants to consider how their area is doing now on co-production, for the different teams and services. And we look at participants’ expectations from this work.

We introduce the Four Cornerstones of Co-production (Genuine Partnerships model), which are the principles needed to create a good quality culture of inclusion and co-production.

Action Learning Set 2 - 13th December 2022 - 10am-12:30pm

Session 2 looks at what it feels like when you do these things well, or don’t get them right, from a parent carer perspective and for practitioners. It encourages staff and families to share their experiences and consider each others’ perspectives and considers the behaviours which help to establish trust.

Action Learning Set 3- 27th January 2023 - 12:30pm-3pm

Session 3 covers how progress can be identified and measured and introduces two toolkits to support the ongoing development of co-production in Early Years. It offers the chance to consider specific points where co-production is key, for example in planning children’s transition to primary school, or other strategic work the local area may be planning.

Please note: You will receive a MS Teams invitation shortly before each workshop.

Registrations are closed

North East Lincs - Early Years Coproduction Local Action Learning Sets