SEMH services and support

For SEMH services and support for early years use the following information, links and downloads.

Deafness and hearing impairment (HI)

For services to support SEMH for deaf children visit the Anna Freud Deafness and me: A toolkit for early years practitioners web page.

General support

For general SEMH services and support for early years use the following links:

• Early Years in Mind - Anna Freud
• Wellbeing measurement for early years settings (annafreud.org) - includes tools that can be used to measure wellbeing robustly and consistently
• Early Years Fundamentals Webinar Series | Training | Anna Freud Centre: - bite-size training on topics of key importance to professionals
• Early years child development training - Free, online DfE training providing an overview of child development including reception years
• Helping young children to think about race in the early years - Anna Freud support booklet for working with under-5s in educational and community settings
• Let’s Talk: Our diverse world (Word, 41KB) - Guidance to create and enhance learning environments to promote and celebrate diversity
• Anna Freud Centre A guide to neurodiversity in the early years - introduce the concept of neurodiversity, consider how ableism is a barrier to inclusion, explore neurodivergent profiles of development, and develop practical approaches to becoming neurodiversity-informed within our early years practice

Transitions support

For SEMH services and support for early years transitions to school use the following links:

• 10 ways to support children (and parents) in preparing for school - FirstDiscoverers guidance
• Essex 'My Transition to School’ passport - Tool to support transition of children from their early years setting into school
• Getting ready to start primary school - Place2Be guidance
• Transitions in early years - Ideas for supporting children and families - Teach Early Years guidance
• Starting school - Books to help ease the transition - List of books from twinkl
• Starting school - Books to help ease the transition - List of books from childhood101
• The Invisible String: 1 - Book by Patrice Karst
• The Colour Monster - Book by Anna Llenas
• The Colour Monster Goes to School: Perfect book to tackle school nerves - Book by Anna Llenas