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Our key partners’ contact details

Helpful contact information for our key partners, including Somerset’s Area SENCos, Children’s Social Care Team and the Entitlements Team

  • Early Years SEND Support Service

  • Children’s Social Care

  • Early Years Entitlements Team

  • Public Health

  • Somerset Health Visitors

  • Ofsted

  • Safeguarding

  • Somerset Centre for Integrated Learning (SCIL)

  • Early Years EAL Advisory Service

  • Somerset Activity and Sports Partnership (SASP)

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Early Years SEND Support Service

Early Years Area SENCOs are Advisory Teachers with a high level of experience of working with young children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) and their families.

More information about them

Meet the Area SENCos

The Area SENCo team have a main email inbox – InclusionSENSupportServices@somerset.gov.uk and their own individual email addresses

Rebecca Fisk – Service Manager – RZFisk@somerset.gov.uk

Jo Toomey – Somerset East Portage Team Leader – JToomey@somerset.gov.uk

Vicky Lamb – Somerset West Portage Team Leader – VMJLamb@somerset.gov.uk

Kiri Gibson KZGibson@somerset.gov.uk

Karen Foster KZFoster@somerset.gov.uk

Mikaela Jauncey MJauncey@somerset.gov.uk

Sarah Stent SStent@somerset.gov.uk

Jo McDonough JMcDonough@somerset.gov.uk

Polly Vidler PVidler@somerset.gov.uk

Children’s Social Care

Children’s Social Care aims to work with parents, carers and young people in a partnership based on respect, equality and fairness, and to offer advice and support before a situation reaches crisis point.

They also work in partnership with, and may refer to, other services and community groups, including education, health, housing, benefits agencies and the police.

More information about them

Early Years Entitlements Team

The Early Years Entitlement Team do all of the administration associated with the take up of the Early Years Entitlements for three and four years olds. Their work also includes the administration of the funding for eligible two year olds and free school meals.

Email – eyfunding@somerset.gov.uk
Phone – 01823 357039

Public Health

Public Health are run by the local authority, and their priorities are to enable:

  • People, families and communities to take responsibility for their own health and wellbeing
  • Families and communities to be thriving and resilient
  • Somerset people to be able to live independently

Email: publichealth@somerset.gov.uk

More about Public Health

Somerset Health Visitors

The aim of the health visiting team is to work with you/your family to identify areas that may impact on the overall health and wellbeing of your family, and to develop a plan together to support you and your child.

Contact details

West Somerset and Taunton – WestandTauntonHV@somerset.gov.uk

Sedgemoor – DutyBridgwaterHealthVisitor@somerset.gov.uk

Mendip – MendipHV@somerset.gov.uk

South Somerset – SouthSomersetHV@somerset.gov.uk

Ofsted

Ofsted is the Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills. They are responsible for inspecting and regulating services that care for children in England. This includes childminders, registered nannies, nurseries, pre-schools, schools and Further Education colleges.

More information

Safeguarding

The Somerset Local Safeguarding Children Partnership works to make sure that children in Somerset are safe.

More about Somerset Local Safeguarding Children Partnership

Email: childrens@somerset.gov.uk

Somerset Centre for Integrated Learning (SCIL)

SCIL conduct all training and professional development for all practitioners in early years, childminding, play and out of school settings. They also deal with general enquiries about Early Years Leadership and Peer to Peer Support Framework and Early Years Teaching Centres.

More information

Address – Dillington House, Ilminster, TA19 9DT

Email – SCIL@somerset.gov.uk

Phone – 0300 123 1967

Early Years EAL Advisory Service

An EAL Advisory service is available to all early years providers in Somerset delivered by the Early Years Alliance.

Sharon and Louise, the two Early Years EAL Advisors provide advice and practical support to all Early Years practitioners in Somerset to deliver improved outcomes for children with English as an Additional Language and their families. They also provide training and can offer one to one visits to early years settings.

Address = Early Years Alliance The Old School, School Road, Westonzoyland Bridgwater Somerset TA7 0LN

Office phone – 01278 691719

Email – eal.service@eyalliance.org.uk

DA Languages – somerset@dalanguages.co.uk

Diversity Voice – linkworker@diversityvoice.org.uk

Somerset Activity and Sports Partnership (SASP)

SASP is the Active Partnership for Somerset, and we work to improve the quality of life in communities across our area through the power of physical activity. SASP is dedicated to increasing the health and happiness of residents in Somerset through physical activity and sport.

Visit their website for more information

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