Norfolk County Council

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Hi everyone and welcome to the Norfolk Early Years Podcast Let's Talk series, a show that helps early years practitioners and professionals understand more about effectively supporting children's speech, language and communication development in the early years.

I'm Jo Patterson-West and I'm Ashley Parker and we're part of the Workforce Development Team within Norfolk County Council's Early Years Service and today we're privileged to be joined by the very knowledgeable Helen Batterley.

Helen is an internationally respected consultant, trainer, lecturer and author in physical development in early childhood education.

She's also chair of NEASC, National Early Years Active Start Partnership.

And UEA is trying to measure how well they achieved that.

And so we're trying to do some work with them and Norfolk Council about how can we be part of their next bit of social prescribing? How can we be part of getting involved and then seeing not only do we look at the mobility impact, but do we want to look at the safety impact as well? And can we put the right metrics in and come up with an approach that you could then replicate in other council deployments? So that's definitely what we're looking at.

We're using the Australian data as a basis to start from, though, because it's powerful.

It's really great.

These things tend to move very slowly as well.

So the other thing we'd say to people is, don't lose hope if you don't get something going in the first six months.

We were talking to Norfolk Council for nearly 18 months before we really got to the point where we started to do some meaningful stuff with them earlier this year.

So these things can take time, but what I found is when people commit to something like this they come back to it they don't they don't low hot and cold really they generally go i'm really interested but it's not right now okay well and then we'll talk again and that it is right now and then they're ready to go um we've also done training material as well um so we've got some uh training material which is designed for professional drivers again It was done with NFP because we were both convinced that you could have an economic impact on a firm if you encourage them to be a bit more cautious and a bit safer around people cycling because they'd have less accidents.

Daniel had a 10-year-old brother, Anthony, and a 2-year-old brother, John, who both needed the care and support of their teachers and the community as they adjusted to the uncertainty of the activity going on around them.

Norfolk County Council arranged for specially trained counsellors to be present at Greenacre during the school day for any students who may require a quiet chat.

In addition to the efforts at Daniel's school, St James's Church in nearby Admiralty Road kept its doors open for anyone who wished to sit and say a prayer or light a candle.

The altar was covered with messages and photos left by school children and members of the community.

So I've got Justin here from the North Group and effectively Calderdale Council.

I've got a partnership with Norfolk County Council via Norse Group, opposite ends of the country really, but it's the right partnership for the service we're delivering.

Stephen and I came together recently on an issue across the Pennines going through that Yorkshire-Lancashire rivalry, but it's where the appropriate sort of partnership sits where you need to work together and I think these structures can sometimes get in the way of that happening.

I want to come on and talk to Justin, but I'm curious.

And we've got new things coming for 26, 27 in terms of supporting schools.

But like, we just learning so much from the conversations we have and, um and and that that was kind of the key learning point we we had funding from Norfolk County Council for every secondary primary and special school but actually we really want to make that deeper learning embed that learning then you've got to get in front of teachers in the schools and speak to them and meet them and connect with them and our data is getting stronger and stronger every time we go in and and lead with that model now so we're really comfortable where we're at at the moment um and like I say the program always comes down to the quality of the lead teacher and how passionate and invested they are to galvanise the team.

And we really encourage a teacher agency and child agency to really put a bespoke stamp on it.

And it was brilliant implementing it at your previous school, the Bowhunt, wasn't it, Paul? Yeah.