become a thrive early years setting
Thrive Early Years PSED Provision for Early Years Settings
Train an Early Years Licensed Practitioner, use Thrive-Online to understand need, and support children’s personal, social and emotional development.
Help babies, toddlers and young children aged 0–5 build the foundations for regulation, relationships, confidence, play and learning.
Reserve your place by 17th June for the Summer 2 cohort.
Access
Ongoing Thrive-Online subscription + 3 month training
Who it's for
Nurseries, pre-schools and childminders
Start date
Summer 2 cohort book by 17th June
Investment
£849 training + subscription from £100/year ex VAT
Peace of Mind
Wise Investment Guarantee
thrive early years psed provision
Overview
The Thrive PSED Provision for Early Years Settings helps nurseries,
pre-schools and childminders support children’s personal, social and emotional development.
By training an Early Years Licensed Practitioner and using Thrive-Online, your setting can assess social and emotional development, create action plans and track progress over time.
Thrive helps practitioners understand what children may be communicating through behaviour, so they can respond through everyday relationships, routines and interactions.
thrive early years psed provision
What's included
Thrive Licensed Practitioner Training
One colleague trains as an Early Years Licensed Practitioner, building the skills to support babies, toddlers and young children’s social and emotional development.
Through this training, your setting can:
- Understand early child development through a relational lens
- Identify children who may need additional PSED support
- Plan experiences that support attachment, regulation and learning
- Support children through everyday routines, transitions and interactions
- Build a shared understanding of behaviour across the team
Practitioners also connect with others on their training cohort.
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Thrive-Online
Thrive-Online helps practitioners assess children’s social and emotional development, create action plans and track progress.
Your setting will be able to:
- Identify children who may need additional PSED support
- Create personalised action plans
- Choose strategies and activities that support each child’s current stage of development
- Track progress over time
- Evidence progress for leaders, Ofsted, family conversations and wider support referrals
Thrive-Online helps practitioners choose support that fits where each child is now, so they can feel safe, connected and ready for play and learning.
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Implementation Support
Your setting receives implementation support to help introduce Thrive in a practical and manageable way.
This support helps you consider how Thrive fits with your routines, key person approach, PSED provision, family support, SEND processes and wider setting priorities.
It also helps your Early Years Licensed Practitioner use Thrive in everyday practice, rather than treating it as a separate programme.
Staff can also complete the free Introduction to Thrive e-learning in Thrive-Online, helping the wider team build a shared understanding of the approach.
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thrive early years psed provision
Who this is for
Early years settings often begin Thrive when they want a clearer way to support PSED, behaviour and school readiness.
It’s particularly relevant where:
- Children need support with regulation, relationships or transitions
- Behaviour such as biting, separation anxiety or outbursts is difficult to understand
- Staff want practical strategies they can use in everyday interactions
- Leaders want clearer evidence of progress for Ofsted and family conversations
- Settings want a shared approach to PSED across the team
The Thrive Approach helps us to give our children the best possible start to their education.”
Elizabeth Leer
Deputy Headteacher and SENCO, Rothesay Nursery School
What settings often see...
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Practitioners develop a deeper understanding of behaviour
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Children receive support that fits their current stage of development
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Children build confidence, connection and regulation
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Leaders can evidence PSED progress more clearly
Who is usually involved
In many early years settings, the Early Years Licensed Practitioner is someone who works closely with babies, toddlers or young children every day.
This often includes:
- nursery practitioners
- room leaders
- early years teachers
- pre-school staff
- childminders
- SENDCos or inclusion leads
- family support or pastoral staff
Ongoing requirement: From the academic year after qualification, Thrive Licensed Practitioners need to complete annual Thrive CPD to maintain their practitioner status.
Nursery managers and setting leaders help make sure Thrive becomes part of everyday practice across the setting.
They support the Early Years Licensed Practitioner to use Thrive-Online, review progress and bring the approach into routines, relationships, transitions, PSED provision and family support.
They can also encourage staff to complete the free Introduction to Thrive e-learning in Thrive-Online, helping the wider team build a shared understanding of the approach.
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Next steps
If you're ready to move ahead with becoming a Thrive Early Years Setting through our PSED provision, you can book online above.
Wise Investment Guarantee: If the trained practitioner leaves your setting within 12 months of completing their training, we will train another member of staff at no additional cost.
If you'd prefer a conversation to talk it through, book a Discovery call with our team.
Yes. Thrive PSED Provision for Early Years Settings gives your setting a clear route to joining Thrive.
To call your setting a Thrive setting, you need at least one trained Early Years Licensed Practitioner and an active annual Thrive-Online subscription. This package gives you both, along with implementation support to help you get started.
Learn more about becoming a Thrive Early Years Setting.
Your setting receives Early Years Licensed Practitioner training for one colleague, Thrive-Online access and implementation support.
Your Early Years Licensed Practitioner learns how to support babies, toddlers and young children’s social and emotional development, build strong relationships and plan experiences that support regulation, relationships, confidence and learning.
Thrive-Online helps your setting assess need, create action plans, track progress and evidence progress over time.
One Early Years Licensed Practitioner is the minimum needed to begin.
Depending on the size of your setting, you may want to train more than one practitioner. This can help build capacity across rooms, age groups or teams, and make it easier to bring Thrive into everyday practice.
You can add additional training places when you purchase, or train more colleagues at a later stage.
Thrive PSED Provision for Early Years Settings includes a one-off Early Years Licensed Practitioner training fee of £849 + VAT and an annual Thrive-Online subscription.
Thrive-Online starts from £100 + VAT per year for settings with up to 30 children. Your annual subscription is based on the number of children in your setting.
Yes. Early years settings may be able to use the Inclusive Early Years Fund for Thrive where it supports their inclusion priorities and local authority guidance.
The Thrive PSED Provision for Early Years Settings can support early identification, staff confidence, relational practice and children’s personal, social and emotional development.
The Inclusive Early Years Fund is intended to help providers strengthen inclusive practice, improve early identification, provide earlier support and build more inclusive environments for all children.
Funding decisions should be made in line with your local authority guidance, your setting’s needs and your inclusion priorities.
Thrive helps practitioners understand children’s social and emotional development and respond to behaviour through consistent, caring relationships.
It supports the foundations children need for regulation, confidence, relationships, transitions, play and learning.
Yes. Thrive supports the emotional foundations children need to feel safe, connected and ready to learn.
By helping practitioners understand children’s social and emotional development, Thrive can support regulation, relationships, confidence and engagement.