In 2016, the Heads of Service who make up the North-East Region Heads of HI Service Group (NERHOS) formed a working group of Teachers of the Deaf with expertise in Early Years to consider the feasibility of an Early Years Framework.
Working from the existing NatSIP Eligibility Framework, the group held several meetings and trialled criteria in their own services. This was developed and revised by a group led by Tina Wakefield, and through a national pilot from July - December 2018.
Following the pilot in In February 2019, we published the Eligibility framework for scoring support levels for children from birth to the end of F1 (nursery).
In addition to the main document, there is a completable scoring form you can download and fill in for each child as you use the framework with them
Although devised by experienced practitioners, the Framework is intended as a guide to good practice for the allocation of appropriate levels of support and not as a rigid set of criteria. It should be used alongside other available materials for Early Support.
Available documents:
The suite of framework documents is now available folder here in the NatSIP documents library:
- pdf Eligibility framework for scoring support levels for deaf children from birth to the end of F1
- Completeable document scoring form