Integrated Early Years' Service
Dudley Early Years’ Service has recently been through a remodel. The three teams across Early Years (Specialist Early Years’ Service, the Childcare Strategy Team and the Early Years Advisory Team have come together to form the Integrated Early Years’ Service offering support to children and families in the Early Years.
What do we offer?
The newly designed service is moving to a cluster-based model. The five multi-skilled teams will be based within the five clusters across the borough (Dudley North, Dudley Central, Brierley Hill, Stourbridge, and Halesowen - See model below) aligning with our Family Centres, this is so that the service can continue to be a visible presence in the community and allow the right support to be directed to children, families, and settings at the right time.
The service offer is evolving quicky as we build and embed the new model. Packages of support to settings, parents and carers are currently being offered, these include a SEND helpline, topic-based workshops, face to face parent groups and Stay and Play sessions alongside support that is being developed in collaboration with partner agencies.
We acknowledge that the changes will bring questions and queries as to how the new model will support all children, including children with additional needs. Support for children with additional needs will continue to be offered through the Integrated Early Years’ Service.
How do I make a referral?
Please see the below link to access the referral form for the Integrated Early Years service: https://www.dudley.gov.uk/early-years-referral/ .
Integrated Early Years can also be contacted by telephone on 01384 814364 or via the following emails:
IEYS.BrierleyHill@dudley.gov.uk
IEYS.DudleyCentral@dudley.gov.uk
IEYS.DudleyNorth@dudley.gov.uk
IEYS.Stourbridge@dudley.gov.uk
Finally see below for details of two parent support groups.
Integrated Early Years Survey
We would welcome your input into IEYS via the attached survey.
The purpose of the engagement exercise is to obtain the views of as many people as possible who have been involved with /used Early Years’ Services and provision in Dudley including specialist nurseries. This includes parents of children with emerging and additional needs across the borough and the professional networks involved with families and their children
The survey can be accessed via the attached link https://eu.surveymonkey.com/r/J8STFPM or by scanning the below QR code:
Local Parent Group details - Autumn Dates 2023
Please see the attached for details of local support groups running during the Autumn term 2023 - Pre booking is required for all sessions