Consultancy services
We only have one chance in early years. We cannot rewind and do it again. The early years phase is an essential part of a young child’s learning and future development. What children learn in their first five years, shapes their future success and learning potential. Quality is key. For children to succeed in life, they must have the highest quality early years’ experiences. Our services help you to deliver the best, and be the best, all day every day.
Staff training & development
The combined skills of Kate and Jo mean they can offer a bespoke range of training and development to support all staff teams. This ranges from introductory level courses in safeguarding and all aspects of early years practice to training for senior and strategic business leaders. Our personalised service and extensive personal experience mean we can offer training and business support in all areas of operational practice.
Compliance & regulation
Kate and Jo can regularly visit your setting to complete compliance checks and make sure all EYFS requirements are being met. We can offer a personalised post-inspection support programme and help you devise a challenging action and improvement plan. We can support you in any compliance issues and get you back on track should things go wrong. We have a proven history of working with clients on a quick growth acquisition programme to check for quality and compliance and support you in the rebranding process to ensure that growth does not compromise quality and reputation. This can be right from the initial stages and completing all due diligence checks on possible acquisitions.
Quality audit check
We work on the principle that children deserve outstanding practice all day, every day. We want to support you in your vision to achieve this. Our comprehensive programmes of quality audit checks make sure your settings are consistently compliant and offering high quality provision for children. Kate and Jo can quickly recognise where practice needs improving and will work with you to target this improvement. We can offer one-off visits, or a planned programme of support throughout the year, depending on what you need.
Early years business support
With Kate and Jo’s combined years in the industry, there are not many business issues they have not come across. Our range of services is tailored exactly to what you need. This might be helping with you an ambitious growth strategy, an ongoing acquisitions programme or supporting you more specifically in your policy and brand development. We support our clients in ensuring their businesses operate in the most profitable and cost-effective way and can support you with new business openings, recruitment and marketing strategies.
Toolkits
This is what we call our ‘Training in a Box’ – we have an extensive range of training packages available. Some of them are ‘toolkit’ based and can be rolled out in any setting. For more information on this, please see our ‘Toolkits’ page. This offers a sample range of packages – if you can’t see what you need, do get in touch, and we can discuss a personalised programme specifically for you.
“The best classroom and the richest cupboard is roofed only by the sky”
— Margaret McMillan