Please support our Early Years Campaign

Walsall SERCO are planning to cut vital services to our Childrens Services and various areas are going to be affected. One of those areas is going to be the Early Years services

For e.g The specialist teachers are going to be reduced from 18 teachers down to 8 !!! Quite a cut and we feel this will affect the services our children are going to get

You can sign our petition here

http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/SaveEarlyYears/


If you are on facebook please join the group

http://www.facebook.com/reqs.php#/group.php?gid=60118269714

Under the new restructuring of SERCO and education Walsall the early years SEN teaching service is under threat. They plan to drastically reduce numbers of staff which would have a devastating effect on our Team around the child service. As said previously we already know that the specialist support teachers will be reduced from 19 down to 8 staff. This will affect our home school teachers and other areas within the early years services which would impact upon all of our families and children with disabilities in Walsall. As you know the support and help to families from the early years team is vital and particularly around transition into nurseries and schools, help with statutory assessments, paperwork etc.

We need parents to be heard to stop us loosing this vital service and you can help by writing to these 3 people

1.Connie Mergen Head of Early Intervention and Inclusion Services

2.Frank Barnes Assistant Manager Director

3.Tony Stainer Managing Director

and can all be found under the same address

Walsall Children’s Services
Strategic Leadership Team
Education Development Centre
Pelsall Lane
Rushall, Walsall WS4 1NG

we only have to the end of February to voice our views so its vital that you put pen to paper so that we can be heard.

SERCO has provided education services to Walsall and under the new contract they are cutting back on staff. It may start off in Early Years and if they suceed who knows where it will go from there.

If you want anymore information please email me at jo@proudwalsall.org

PROUD meets this Saturday 7th February at Leighswood Childrens Centre 2pm - 4pm

We have a speech and language therapist who is coming along to do a taster session of Makaton

Here is the map link for those who don't know where Leighswood Childrens Centre is

click here for map

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