Newly registered provider

Once you become a registered provider, following your successful registration visit from Ofsted, you will be offered non-chargeable advice and support from Shropshire's Early Years' Team: 

• The Early Years' Funding Team

         You will receive a welcome email from the Early Years' Funding Team, inviting to complete a number of

         forms, so the Funding Team can set you to receive early years' funding:

        Early Years Funding | Shropshire Learning Gateway

         A second email will be sent, with details and information on how to access The Portal to submit

         termly headcounts, along with an invitation to join the Early Years and Childcare Teams' site.

• Quality Improvement Learning Co-ordinator

        During the first term of becoming a registered provider, you will be contacted by the Quality

        Improvement Learning Co-ordinator to arrange a visit to look at the provision for Learning and 

        Development, offered in your setting.

• Childcare Sufficiency Development Officer

        If you have received a capital grant from Shropshire Council, you will also have a visit from Dan Steele 

        (Childcare Sufficiency Development Officer). 

• Safeguarding Officer (Early Years)

        During the second term, you will be contacted by Charlotte Percival (Safeguarding Officer for Early 

        Years, to arrange a visit to review Safeguarding within your setting.

• Education Quality Adviser - SEND and Alternative Provision (Early Years)

       During the third term, you will be contacted by Heidi White (Education Quality Adviser), to arrange a 

       visit to review the SEND provision in your setting.