DINGLEY FAMILY AND SPECIALIST EARLY YEARS CENTRES 

This funding will be used to improve the outdoor curriculum and resources available to early years children with special education needs and disabilities.

Core Funding

Recovery learning and play programme for young children with SEND

The Kickstart Scheme provides funding to employers to create jobs for 16 to 24 year olds on Universal Credit.

The Kickstart Scheme provides funding to employers to create jobs for 16 to 24 year olds on Universal Credit.

Dingley’s Promise delivers excellence in Early Years provision and supports families to access the help they need to ensure their child reaches their full potential. This work has a noticeable ....more

Dingley’s Promise delivers excellence in Early Years provision and supports families to access the help they need to ensure their child reaches their full potential. This work has a noticeable impact on children’s development and transition to educational settings in which they thrive.

The funding will be used to support young children with SEND and their families by providing a 12 week Sensory Recovery Programme in the group's three centres. The project will benefit 50 children ....more

The funding will be used to support young children with SEND and their families by providing a 12 week Sensory Recovery Programme in the group's three centres. The project will benefit 50 children under 5 with learning difficulties and will offer a sensory toy library sensory circuits for 30 minutes each morning two 30 minute sensory story massage sessions sensory food maps for each child and a 60-minute Stay & Play session for up to 10 families to try out a variety of sensory activities.

In this project, we tackle the UK?s dire shortage of early years SEND places. We want to drive widespread change in a sector that, while universally recognised as key for children?s development and ....more

In this project, we tackle the UK?s dire shortage of early years SEND places. We want to drive widespread change in a sector that, while universally recognised as key for children?s development and reducing inequality, suffers from a lack of national strategy and ambition. While sufficiency of places in the early years is a statutory requirement, there is no specific requirement for children with SEND, so it is not prioritised locally. Currently 81% of local authorities do not have enough SEND places to meet local demand. In this project we will: Deliver training in inclusive practices to a minimum of 31,000 practitioners across 2,800 settings in 30 local authority areas, which include a mix of rural, urban, northern and southern authorities. The practitioner reach number is based on an average of 11 practitioners per setting (DfE Survey of Childcare 2019) Create a hub of resources online and work with partners like the Council for Disabled Children (CDC) and Disabled Children's Partnership (DCP) to share the resources through their own nationally recognised sites Work with partner local authorities to gain their commitment to improving inclusion. 22 of the 36 local authorities we've approached so far have expressed a firm commitment to participate in the project. They represent 6,300 settings and 69,300 practitioners, so we're confident of achieving our participation targets of 2,800 settings and 30,800 practitioners. Work with CDC and DCP, members of the project Steering Committee, and the APPG on Early Years to lobby for wider change. The project will empower early years practitioners to deliver inclusive practices, and upskill them through training and shared information/learning resources, and create an additional 6,900 early years SEND places. Each year, two new training modules will be created and delivered in response to feedback and demand. It?s important because: I honestly don't think anyone else will do it! This project offers a permanent ,affordable, easy to implement solution, and an easy to replicate model that other areas within the UK and other countries can copy; we just need the funding to implement it! . The shortage of early years SEND places holds back thousands of young children every year, needlessly condemning them to special education and potentially adult care, failing to integrate them into mainstream society, failing to ensure they lead fulfilled and independent lives, and costing the country millions of wasted pounds. Research evidences a lack of training and support, and low staff confidence, as the main causal factors. The UN defines access to quality education is a child?s right. Yet, currently in the UK most children under 5 with SEND cannot access quality education and the situation is worsening - in 2020 81% of local authorities state they have insufficient local early years SEND places, an increase of 3% from the 78% in 2019. And only 25% of 3 & 4 year olds with SEND currently access the 30 hours government-funded free early education, compared to 75% of non-SEND children. And I fear the pandemic will worsen all these statistics!

The Kickstart Scheme provides funding to create new jobs for 16 to 24 year olds on Universal Credit who are at risk of long term unemployment.

This project will provide Learn through Play sessions for young children with special educational needs. Children will improve their physical development, confidence and social skills.

This project will provide developmental support for children with special educational needs. Children will improve their emotional and physical development.

Dingley's Promise aims to give children under 5 with SEND the best start in life by providing specialist learning through play and family support from its 3 centres in Berkshire. We seek funding for ....more

Dingley's Promise aims to give children under 5 with SEND the best start in life by providing specialist learning through play and family support from its 3 centres in Berkshire. We seek funding for a 12-month Healthy Eating project to be delivered in all 3 centres (and remotely if required). All our children have eating difficulties - refusing to eat, selective eating, snatching food, eating inedible and potentially dangerous items, refusing to come to the table, regurgitation, vomiting or spitting out food during eating. They are a significant barrier to their long-term development, independence and wellbeing. Concern over their children’s food issues is one of the biggest worries for our parents and one that they regularly raise with our staff. The grant will enable us to buy some additional food-related resources and fund the staff costs of delivering a 12 month Healthy Eating programme of activities in all 3 centres. Impact: We anticipate seeing developmental progress and a reduction of eating/feeding issues in 100% of participating children, including children more willing to sit at the table and participate in meal times, exploring a wider range of foods, eating a wider range of foods, drinking more and more frequently.

"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to ....more

"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to operate, thereby reducing the burden on public services.2) To ensure essential services are provided to vulnerable people, both in the short and long term through increased community support through the work of charitable organisations."

Grant to C-19 CCLORS - Dingley Family & Specialist Early Years Centres

COVID19 : purchase of IT equipment for a charity that works with people with disabiltiies in Berkshire

Towards improvements to a sensory room and outside play area at a centre for children aged up to 5 years old that have special educational needs.

towards the salaries of two early year's practitioners

The organisation will use funding to continue running the Wokingham Centre and to embed and roll-out a new way of working focusing on the transition of children into mainstream settings.

Core costs of delivering our vital services to children under the age of 5 years with additional needs and disabilities and their families across Berkshire.

towards three years' salaries of two part-time Family Support Workers at a project providing support to parents/carers of young children in Berkshire with additional needs and/or disabilities

Supporting meaningful inclusion for children with SEND in the early years.

Fund an Early Years Practitioner to deliver Learn Through Play sessions for children under 5 with additional needs and/or disabilities.

As requested by the donor towards providing play centres for young children with additional needs.

Building Inclusion Through Specialist Support

As requested by the donor towards providing play centres for young children with additional needs.

As requested by the donor

This project will offer interactive early intervention sessions to children from 0 to five years old with additional needs and disabilities, in order for them to learn skills and have a more ....more

This project will offer interactive early intervention sessions to children from 0 to five years old with additional needs and disabilities, in order for them to learn skills and have a more structured routine before they start nursery or school. Additionally for parents and carers, the group will offer short respite breaks to care for other siblings, and workshops on topics such as behaviour management and how to support siblings.

This is a project by an incorporated charity in Reading. The organisation will use the funding to install a safety play surface at their early years centre for disabled young people. This will enable ....more

This is a project by an incorporated charity in Reading. The organisation will use the funding to install a safety play surface at their early years centre for disabled young people. This will enable disabled young people to have the same safe play facilities as able bodied young people.