The benefits of EYP membership

Aspect EYP members, and members who are on pathways towards EYPS, all benefit from a comprehensive range of benefits as well as specialist advice and support.

Aspect brings together professionals from across children’s services, so by joining your association you are helping to embed yourself within the body leading on professional children’s workplace issues. Together Aspect members are at the forefront of bringing the Every Child Matters agenda into everything we do.

As an EYP of course, you are also joining with your immediate peers to ensure EYPs across the country are designing and driving your own future, and that you have a loud voice focused directly on the key issues to EYPs.

As an Aspect EYP member you have access to:

• day-to-day support and trade union representation on salaries, contracts, conditions of service, workloads, and other work-related issues
• access to Aspect’s 24-hour legal helpline and personal injury helpline
• discounted rates on a wide range of Aspect training courses
• independent financial advice
• specialist and informative publications, including a quarterly magazine with a regular digest of key reports on recent developments in the children’s services sector

Aspect EYP members know where to turn for advice if …

• a new manager decides passing on the Graduate Leader Fund is discretionary
• a parent or child raises a complaint and there needs to be an investigation
• there are concerns about different staff members working together
• you are finding it hard to do your role as a curriculum leader due to difficulties with finding the time to prepare or communicate with colleagues

… would you know where to turn?

All members of the Aspect EYP section also benefit from regular newsletters, the support and leadership of their own National Committee, dedicated professional research and lobbying, and a voice at the table with government and agencies such as the DCSF, CWDC and Ofsted. Oh and join us on Facebook too –chat to those facing the same issues as you even if they are hundreds of miles away!

Download a form here: EYP Aspect Join form

And don’t forget to join the Aspect EYP Facebook group!