Get support for early education and childcare settings

The Early Years Team is responsible for ensuring that high quality early years and childcare provision, which is available and accessible to all families with young children.

They offer support and advice to all settings that provide early education and childcare, this includes:

childminders
Private Voluntary and Independent (PVI) Early Years settings
maintained nursery schools
infant and primary schools

They also provide advice to registered Out of School Clubs that offer childcare.

They support the multi-agency early years strategy in Cumberland, working with partner organisations across Health, Inclusion, Early Help and the Voluntary Sector in order to improve outcomes for children across the county. This includes supporting our children's centres and working in partnership to develop a network of Family Hubs in partnership with communities.

They aim to listen and learn from all of our providers, as well as directly engaging with children and families in order to help make Cumberland the best place it can be to grow up in.

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