Useful contacts for the childcare sector
A list of services and supporting agency's contact details has been detailed below for your convenience. We have included useful links that you may also find helpful.
Directory of services
Local
- Early Help
Phone: 0116 454 1694
Email: Early-Help-Queries@leicester.gov.uk
Website: Early help (leicester.gov.uk) - Public health
Email: PH-admin@leciester.gov.uk
Website: Public health (leicester.gov.uk) - Leicester City Safeguarding contacts and information, including Children's Advice Support Prevention Team (CASP), LADO service and Prevent
Website: Family Information | Safeguarding links and resources (leicester.gov.uk) - Early Years Support Team
Website: Early Years Support Team | Leicester City
Phone: 0116 454 4750 - Leicester City Council Adult Education
Website: Leicester Adult Learning - Courses (leicesteradulted.ac.uk) - Funding & Grants FEEE Team
Provides support for the administration and finance of 2, 3 and 4 year FEEE and 30 hours Extended Entitlement.
Email: earlyeducation@leicester.gov.uk
Phone: 0116 4541680 - Public safety team
Email: publicsafety@leicester.gov.uk - Health & Safety for businesses - scroll down for the section on Food hygiene and safety
Website: Food hygiene and safety (leicester.gov.uk)
Contact: food@leicester.gov.uk - SEN Inclusion Funding (SENIF)
Email: nick.gilroy@leicester.gov.uk
Phone:0116 454 4715 - Children, young people and family centres
12 children’s centres in 6 cluster areas across the city all offering a range of support to families.
Website: families.leicester.gov.uk/childrenscentres - Leicester Employment Hub
Website: www.leicesteremploymenthub.co.uk
Contact: Alpa.Chauhan@leicester.gov.uk or Mahendra.Patel@leicester.gov.uk 0116 4542943 - Leicester Nutrition and Dietetic Service
Contact: Joanne Reade, Senior Nutritionist Tel: 079192 13997
Email: joanne.reade@nhs.net
Website: Leicestershire Nutrition and Dietetic Service for Early Year's Settings
Regional
- Leicestershire County Council Safeguarding
Website: Concerned about a child? - Leicestershire and Rutland Safeguarding Partnerships Business Office (lrsb.org.uk) - Fire safety
Website: Home (leics-fire.gov.uk)
National
- Ofsted
Email: enquiries@ofsted.gov.uk
Contact form: Contact us | Ofsted
Phone: 0300 123 4666 - Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
Website: https://www.gov.uk/dbs-update-service
Useful web links
- Food Standard Agency
- Early years foundation stage nutrition guidance.
- Business support sources of information (leicester.gov.uk)
- Early years foundation stage (EYFS) statutory framework - GOV.UK
- Early Years Inspection Toolkit
- Early Years Inspection Information
- Early years inspection operating guide for inspectorsÂ
- Development Matters - Non-statutory curriculum guidance for the early years foundation stage (publishing.service.gov.uk)
- Progress check at age 2 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
- What to expect in the EYFS (foundationyears.org.uk)
- Foundation Years - From pregnancy to children aged 5
- Birth to 5 matters (pdf)
- Early Years child development training (education.gov.uk)
- Help for early years providers - Department for Education
- Ofsted news blog
- Education Endowment Foundation | EEF
- Stronger Practice Hub | Pen Green Children's Centre
- Leicester City Safeguarding information and resources
- Information and commissions office
- Disclosure and Barring Service - Criminal record checks for childminders and childcare workers
- Health and safety executive (HSE) Information about health and safety at work
- Early years qualification requirements and standards (publishing.service.gov.uk)
- Check an early years qualification - online checker
- Early years qualifications achieved in the United Kingdom - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
- Acas - employment right issues
- Becoming an employer - HMRC email updates, videos and webinars for employing people - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
- National Day Nurseries Association - NDNA
- Coram PACEY
- Early Years Alliance
- Coram
- National Children's Bureau (ncb.org.uk)