Dingley’s Promise wants inclusion training to be made mandatory for early years staff and for local authorities to encourage settings to undertake training as standard, allowing use of the Special Educational Needs and Inclusion Fund (SENIF) to fund it.
The charity, which runs nine early years centres and offers training, has put forward recommendation for ‘vital change’ across the early years SEND sector.
The charity argues that without improved funding, clear systems and workforce development, there is little hope the crisis in early years inclusion, whereby only 4 per cent of local authorities in England believe they have enough early years provision for all children with SEND, will be improved.
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