The evaluation of the Early Years Experts and Mentors, and the Childminder Mentor programmes – part of the £180 million, three-year Early Years Education Covid Recovery programme – by Ecorys and Professor Kathy Sylva from the University of Oxford was published last month.
Both interventions offered targeted support and coaching to early years staff – setting leaders, practitioners and childminders – by experienced early years professionals termed “experts”, working with peer mentors, and co-ordinating area leads. Coram Hempsall's acted as the training partner for both, and as the delivery partner for the childminding programme.
James Hempsall, Coram Hempsall's managing director, said hundreds of training sessions were delivered through the programmes with the benefits seen in improving everyday practice and in changing a setting's long-term culture.
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