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Nursery World Awards 2008: Organisations - Local Authority Early Years Team of the Year

WINNER: Warwickshire Early Years Advisory Team

Warwickshire is a large county of both rural and urban areas, and with awide range of childcare needs and services for this brilliant team tosupport. Its aim has been to raise all practitioners' learning anddevelopment in line with the Early Years Foundation Stage.

Support is given through sustained visits, modelling good practice,sharing documentation, coaching and mentoring, good practice visits, andlead training. Such central leadership has meant that links between thesectors have thrived, and more than 50 sites are now involved in theauthority's EYFS partnership scheme.

The team routinely comes up with new projects and solutions, like theyear-long Transition - A Journey to Success, with an early years adviserteacher working with five schools and settings to explore how to createa seamless transition.

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