School Ready Programme

Through working co-productively with those with lived experience and professionals a set of nine school readiness behaviours have been developed for Blackpool. These have been delivered through a range of printed and digital resources, modelling and coaching.

Each child across the town for the last 7 years has been gifted a School Readiness Book and checklist through their school, for parents to use with their child at home. This is supported by a social media campaign that models these behaviours.

Working with schools in more deprived areas, children are also invited to School Readiness Groups where these behaviours are modelled, and parents are coached to support learning at home.

Over 7,000 ‘Getting Ready for School’ Resource Books and Resources have been distributed between 2018 and 2024.

Since the relaunch of the Early Years Foundation Stage Profile in 2021/22 there has been an improvement of 12.2% in children assessed at the end of reception year as meeting all their Early Learning Goals (ELG).

Nationally there has been a 11.5% improvement of the number of children reaching the expected level of development across all Early Learning Goals now 74.9%.

In Blackpool 69.6% of children meet the expected level of development across Early Learning Goals, this is the largest change across the 10 most deprived authorities where the average improvement is 3.8%.