Dingley’s Promise
Dingley’s Promise is passionate about giving every child with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) the best start in life.
We support children through tailored specialist support in our early years centres, provide outreach support to families, spread inclusive practice through training for professionals and lobby decision makers for policy change to improve the lives of children and families.
Early Years CPD Training – funded by the Department for Education
Dingley’s Promise has been commissioned to deliver Early Years SEND CPD courses designed to provide practical support to develop inclusive practice across the sector. Recent research has reflected that practitioner knowledge and skills are among the strongest drivers of quality in early childhood education, and the growing numbers of children with SEND over recent years […]
Organisational Newsletter Summer 2026
A message from our CEO, Catherine Mole MBE “What an exciting academic year for Dingley’s Promise! As we enter the summer holidays, we have twelve Centres supporting children from Worcester down to Poole, we have trained over 35,000 early years educators in how to make the mainstream more inclusive, and we have been central to […]
Our response to Early Years Inclusion Fund Announcement
On Wednesday 25th June the government have announced guidance on support spaces and new buildings within schools designed specifically to support children with SEND and to promote inclusive practice. They have also announced the IEYF (Inclusive Early Years Fund) which is designed to strengthen inclusive practice in early years. Whilst we welcome the government’s move to encourage […]