Philippa Travis
Early Years Outreach Intervention Lead

The Early Years Outreach Intervention Service is commissioned for Oakley School to deliver in an agreement with the Kent Local Authority.

The purpose of the agreement is to provide timely support to children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) in Early Years settings including pre-schools and nurseries in our community.

Our community falls within part of the West Kent District. The Tunbridge Wells Local Authority District includes Royal Tunbridge Wells itself, the towns of Paddock Wood and Southborough, and numerous surrounding villages and rural areas. Specific villages and towns within the district's boundaries include Brenchley, Capel, Cranbrook, Goudhurst, Hawkhurst, Horsmonden, and Lamberhurst.

The Aim of the Early Years Outreach Intervention Service is to work with children needing additional levels of support and early intervention to achieve the following ambitions as set out in KCC’s SEND Strategy:

1. Improving the lived experience of Children and Families
2. Access to the right support at the right time in the right place
3. Achieving the best outcomes through inclusion and participation
4. Working together with children and young people with SEND and their families
5. Preparing for a successful future at the earliest opportunity

The objective of the service is to provide a place-based approach to intervention, meaning outreach support is provided from the service to the child in the mainstream setting that they attend. By supporting children this way we are actively working towards strengthening partnership working and developing best practice and confidence in the wider workforce to enable more effective support for children with SEND in Early Years mainstream settings.

Specialist Practitioners from Oakley School Early Years Team will support your child directly in their pre-school or nursery working in close partnership with the setting staff.