Safeguarding and Rights

The Early Intervention Service

The Early Intervention Service is a small preventive, child-centred Service working to promote the inclusion of young children aged 4-7, who have been identified as at risk of current or later educational and/or social exclusion.

It works across the borough with schools and parents/carers of pupils who show significant and enduring emotional, social and behavioural difficulties, both in School and at home which are interfering with their learning and relationships.

Its multi-disciplinary team of teachers, Senior Nursery Nurses and Family Therapists offer a range of time limited therapeutic educational services to this age group of pupil, including individually tailored joint school/home packages of daily intensive support for up to 20 young children which can last up to a year.

It is regarded by the local education authority as a Special Needs intervention for pupils at, or approaching 'Schools Action Plus' on the Special Educational needs Code of Practice.

The Service operates out of 2 multi-purpose Centres. Acorns 1 accepts referrals from Schools from a catchment area across the southern part of the borough, while Acorns 2 covers the remainder.

Acorns 1 - Location and Schools list|

Acorns 2 - Location and Schools list|

The Early Intervention Service:

Provides individually tailored, intensive, joint School/Home packages of support for up to 20 vulnerable young children, their families and Schools from across the borough. The support package lasts for approximately 1 year and the aim is to help each pupil, their family and school overcome the difficulties they are experiencing, and for the child to enjoy success and remain in their mainstream School
Runs 5 weekly Nurture Groups in Schools, each for 6 pupils one afternoon per week for the duration of a year. These regular small therapeutic educational groups are for young children who are struggling to make appropriate progress within their large mainstream class, are showing this through troubling or troublesome behaviour, and who need a predictable small group experience to enable them to move forward socially and emotionally. This intervention supports a further 30 vulnerable pupils, and this level of provision is increasing
Provides training and offers consultation to other professionals on understanding and managing children's emotional and behavioural difficulties, and working with families
Runs parenting groups at The Acorns

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The underlying principles and ethos of The Acorns|

The central importance of parents/carers and the therapeutic work with families|

The current situation|

Contact

Julie Hamilton

Operations Manager

Acorns 2

50 Markyate Road

Dagenham

RM8 2LD

Tel: 020 8724 1053 or 020 8724 1054

Fax: 020 8724 1055

Email: julie.hamilton@lbbd.gov.uk or theacorns@bardaglea.org.uk|