Education and Early Years Team

Contact me if you need help with

• strategy and policy formulation, implementation, finances/grant funding, data monitoring and performance overview of the City Education and Early Years Services
• universal Health Services – strategic overview, delivery and joint commissioning of Children’s Health Services for the City of London
• collaboration and partnership work with Schools and Education Settings to support the Health & Wellbeing of children and young people in the City
• safeguarding the City’s children and young people, particularly the most vulnerable in Schools, Education and Early Years Services

The Lead Advisor and School Admissions and Attendance Manager can help you with:

• school admissions
• children missing education
• performance Licences and Body of Persons Approvals (BOPA)
• children being electively home educated (EHE)
• home tuition for children with medical needs
• education welfare service (schools located within the City of London)
• school Improvement
• free School Meals
• school clothing grants

Contact me if:

• you would like to set up a new nursery/pre-school or would like to become a registered childminder or nanny in the Square Mile
• you want to know more about the Childcare Accessibility Scheme
• you are an Early Years provider and you:
  • want some training, advice, support or guidance
  • have a safeguarding concern you would like to discuss, or
  • have concern about a child’s development and need some advice

Contact me if you:

• need help with anything Early Years related in the Square Mile. If I can’t help you, I’ll direct you to someone who can
• are an Early Years provider or practitioner and you want some training, advice, support or guidance
• want support with Healthy Early Years London
• want to know about the City of London speech and language programme, COLTALE (City of London Talks and Listens Enthusiastically)
• have ideas or content for our social media sites
• want information about the Dolly Parton Imagination Library book gifting scheme

Team Support Officer

Contact me if you have questions about:

• our service
• finance
• signing up for our newsletters
• training, conferences and events

Contact me if you need help with:

• content on the Family Information Service and SEND Local Offer website
• submitting events and services on the Family Information Service and SEND Local Offer directory
• social media content on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook

Contact me if you:

• would like information about The City of London SEND Strategy for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND)
• would like to be involved in designing services for children and young people with SEND
• have questions about how services for children and young people with SEND are being delivered

Contact me if you have any questions about:

• the EHC needs assessment process and making a referral
• information, advice and guidance around receiving additional support and services for children and young people with SEND
• EHC plans and receiving the appropriate support for your child
• requests for SEND home to school transport

Contact the SENCO of your child’s educational setting first with any concerns, who will then contact me if they need further help with:

• your child’s learning
• your child’s well being
• your child’s social interactions

I am also able to offer educational settings training in understanding and supporting SEN and specific areas of need, autism, mental health and the development and learning of children and young people from 0 – 25.

Contact me if you:

• are an early years setting, school, college and need specialist support with children or young people
• require SENCO training
• need special education needs training and resources, including topics such as transition to adulthood