Bringing Birmingham’s Early Years Community together
Helping Birmingham’s children thrive, and serving those who support them
About BEYN
The Birmingham Early Years Networks (BEYN) is a place for the whole Early Years Community to connect, collaborate, and communicate.
We build professional partnerships in order to develop pedagogical practice to improve educational outcomes for the young children of Birmingham.
Our Approach
We support
Childminders
Private Voluntary & Independents settings (PVIs)
Maintained nursery schools
Infant and primary schools
Special schools
Children's Centres and all those working with children under 5 and their families
You can access information about activities and practice in your district and across the city. This is your space, and we welcome your contributions, comments, and feedback on what we share online.
Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
We offer a range of courses: whether you're just starting in your training or you've been in the profession for 30+ years, we've got plenty of fantastic CPD to suit every need.
What we do
Our Projects
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Stronger Practice Hub
This partnership of Birmingham Local Authority, BEYN and all 27 Maintained Nursery Schools works to continue to build on and strengthen our existing support for early years within Birmingham and beyond.
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Families
Partnership with families and caregivers is crucial in the Early Years. Here, you’ll find links to our core projects and to resources, advice, and activities to aid children's development and education.
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Now You're Talking Birmingham
Bringing together information, resources, advice and links for parents and practitioners that support speech, language and communication development.
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Developing Local Provision
Aiming to enhance the work being done by early years settings and mainstream schools in providing support to children in their local area.
About Birmingham Early Years Networks
The Birmingham Nursery School Collaboration Trust (BNSCT) is funded by Birmingham Early Years and Childcare Service to lead the BEY Networks across the city's ten districts. BEYN is a place for the whole Early Years Community to connect, collaborate and communicate.
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