Early Years Education Resource Group

The Early Years Education Resource Group is a multi-agency panel designed to offer relevant and timely support for children with an identified need before they start school. Children who access this service will be deemed to have significant and complex additional support needs affecting their development. Recommended support will be identified using a staged intervention framework, in order to meet specific needs at the right time. 

This group will also consider and make decisions regarding requests for an additional funded year of Early Learning & Childcare for those who do not meet the criteria for an automatic deferral. 

The Early Years Education Resource Group is the main referral pathway to access a specialist placement in the Green Room at the Hub in Sanderson's Wynd PS, and Education’s 0–3 Outreach Service including ‘Kidz Play’.

The EY ERG has active representation from:

• Educational Psychology Service

• Early Learning & Childcare

• Early Years Outreach

• Health Visiting

• NAMS

• Speech & Language Therapy

• Occupational Therapy and, 

• Links with the Community Learning Disabilities Nursing team, Community Child Health and Early Years - Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services. 

The EY ERG will review Requests for Assistance approximately every 8 weeks and make recommendations for accessing the most appropriate intervention from the range of services available for that child at that time e.g. home play sessions, parenting programmes, support transitioning to an Early Learning & Childcare setting, Early Years Outreach, Kidsplay, Green Room. 

Requests for Assistance to the Early Years Education Resource Group should be submitted via the Single Point of Access.

Due to the very young age of the children, Requests for Assistance for 0 – 3 outreach can be accepted with minimal supporting documentation e.g. recent multi-agency report, ages & stages questionnaire.

However, submissions to the EY ERG requesting a specialist provision placement or additional year of funded Early Learning & Childcare requires the following information and paperwork to be submitted in advance of each meeting:

• Child’s Plan (from Health or Education)

• Most recent ages & stages questionnaire (ASQ or ASQ-SE)

• Recent Assessment of Wellbeing e.g. universal assessment, if Child’s Plan is not in place

• Child’s learning & development tracking e.g. GL assessment / CfE tracker

• Educational Psychology report

• Relevant up-to-date multi-agency reports (where appropriate)

• Information regarding care experience if relevant

EY ERG panel dates for the 2023/24 school year are detailed below (including the deadline for submissions):

31st Aug 2023 (17th Aug)

26th Oct 2023 (12th Oct)

14th Dec 2023 (30th Nov)

29th Feb 2024 (15th Feb)

25th April 2024 (11th April)

20th June 2024 (6th June)