I work for a local authority

We’ll give you everything your childcare providers need to know

We work on a daily basis with over 5,000 early years providers including nursery practitioners, child minders, pre-school practitioners and children's centre practitioners across the UK, so we understand all the varied challenges faced by the early years sector. They rely on us to give them high quality advice, training and support, so the children in their care get the best possible start in life.

When you become a member of NDNA, as a Local Authority, we’ll give you advice on all aspects of childcare, access to a wide range of online and face to face training, and consultancy on specific issues your early years settings are facing.

We’re already helping a number of local authorities to overcome their challenges​

Working with settings to ensure sustainability and getting more two year olds into childcare, are challenges facing many local authorities. In Gloucestershire, we’re training settings on business modelling and cost reduction to help them to take on more two year olds while remaining strong and sustainable.

We’re here to give you expert advice, training and consultancy

Whether you need advice on starting a nursery, safeguarding, behavioural challenges or running a successful nursery business, we can give you all the training and support you need – from factsheets to developing bespoke training that will address specific problems. We’ll give you the tools you need to ensure your childcare settings become high quality, strong and sustainable. In Birmingham, we are delivering a 15 month programme of 64 training events and 32 focus group sessions for early years settings, including childminders and out of school clubs, on supporting children’s emotional and social behaviour effectively. 

To discuss how we can help you with the issues you’re facing, contact us and select the Training option in the drop down box.

Local Authority Membership – from £293 per year

NDNA’s Local Authority membership will help you to develop and support high quality provision and will become your reliable source of information on best practice and policy developments.

This is what you’ll get from your Local Authority Membership:

• Discounts on our full programme of up-to-the-minute training, events and other products and services
• Access to all of our nursery policy and procedure templates
• Two free places, each year, at an NDNA regional or national member event
• Six issues of Nursery News: NDNA’s membership magazine
• Our email newsletter with all the latest information you need to know, sent to you every two weeks.

If you would like to become a Local Authority member, please call Linda Herriott or Glenn Rothwell on 01484 40 70 70. 

How will you benefit from joining NDNA?

NDNA is recognised as the preferred supplier for a number of local authorities across England, Wales and Scotland.

Our local authority members benefit from NDNA's ongoing support:

• a dedicated Business Development Manager to discuss the support and training you need and how we can deliver it to you
• discounted face-to-face training delivered to your settings, just when you need it
• design and delivery of projects supporting the entire childcare sector: safeguarding and child protection, places and training for two year olds, business support, SEND and English and Maths projects
• low cost, online training from just £11.99, helping you to save money
• regular industry updates summarised into digestible chunks, to ensure you don’t miss a thing and you know exactly what action to take now
• support and advice to help the early years providers in your area
• you’ll be invited to get involved in our major childcare campaigns such as Healthy Body, Happy Me and the Childcare Challenge: campaigning with national Government to make a real change to the choice, cost and quality of childcare.

Training courses

NDNA is a commissioned training provider, so you can buy our training for your area

Many of our training courses are online, which means you can reach more people, or you can choose our face to face courses and offer it in a set location to your childcare settings. 
Here are some of our most popular courses:

Impact assessment

You'll get more than just a training course...

When local authorities ask us to deliver training, those childcare settings are learning essential new skills, but it's vital that these are taken on board and embedded within the setting, so they can start making a positive impact straight away.

...you'll take away an action plan

During the training course, the trainer will work with you to create a plan of action, specific to the needs of each setting. These are collected at the end of the course and uploaded electronically at NDNA. Our trainers will then follow up, either by phone or by visiting the settings, to check on progress - if settings need any help putting things into practice, we'll give our advice there and then. 

Case study: Birmingham local authority

Birmingham Council have asked NDNA to deliver a number of workshops on Promoting Positive Behaviour. Following training, all action plans were loaded onto Birmingham's electronic system, which allows attendees and other childcare settings in the area to see what differences are being made to improve behaviour. Read more

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