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The 2024 Summer term headcount is now open. The offical headcount date for your summer term actuals is Thursday 16 May with the deadline for all submissions being Friday 17 May 2024.
Please note we may not be able to accept any headcount submissions after the above date.
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Refreshed Childcare Choices toolkit
The refreshed Childcare Choices toolkit is now available to download: Guidance and resources | Childcare choices
The toolkit includes:
- Key messaging in preparation for the new 15 hours offer for parents of 9-23 month olds that will be rolled out from September.
- The addition of a link to translated Childcare Choices leaflets into 11 different languages.
- Links to more recent case studies.
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A Better Start Annual Online Conference, 10th June 2024 |
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Book your free place at A Better Start’s annual conference
Registration has opened for the A Better Start annual online conference, ‘Collective Change: Learning from A Better Start’, which is taking place on Monday 10 June.
Through a mix of presentations and facilitated discussions you will hear directly from ABS practitioners, parents, and directors about how they have made improvements at both local and national levels.
To book your place at this free online event go to Collective Change: Learning from A Better Start Tickets, Mon, Jun 10, 2024 at 9:30 AM | Eventbrite
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Capital Funding for Wraparound and Extended Entitlements
As the childcare expansion and wraparound project continues to move at pace, we would like to take the opportunity to update you further on the current progress and next steps in regard to sufficiency planning and processes for capital funding.
The meeting will be taking place on: Date: Tuesday 21st May Time: 7:00pm to 9:00pm To book a place please visit our Families Service Directory
Family Services Directory - East Riding
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Early Years Foundation Stage consultations launched
The Department for Education has launched a consultation on safeguarding requirements within the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) framework.
The proposals in the consultation aim to ensure the safeguarding requirements are as comprehensive as possible for providers and are suitably robust to keep children safe.
The consultation proposals include:
- Amendments to promote safer recruitment including new requirements to obtain references and requiring safeguarding policies to include procedures to follow to help ensure recruitment of suitable individuals.
- Creation of new requirements for following up if a child is absent for a prolonged period of time and amendments to ensure providers hold additional emergency contact details.
- Creation of new requirements to ensure safer eating.
- Creation of a safeguarding training criteria annex and a requirement for safeguarding policies to include details of how safeguarding training is delivered and how practitioners are supported to put it into place.
- Amendments to clarify that early years students and trainees are required to have paediatric first aid (PFA) training.
- Amendments to ensure that children’s privacy when changing nappies and toileting is considered and balanced with safeguarding need.
- A small number of other minor changes to the structure and wording of the safeguarding requirements to improve clarity.
You can respond to the consultation here: Early years foundation stage (EYFS) safeguarding - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
The consultation will be live for 8 weeks, and will be closing 17 of June.
Separately the DfE has launched an additional EYFS consultation on the experience-based route for early years practitioners, following positive feedback from settings to this proposed change. This proposal recognises the valuable skills and experience that exist in the early years sector, and aims to give providers the flexibility to use staff more effectively by counting those without an approved qualification - but with sufficient experience - in the level 3 ratios. The consultation seeks views from the sector about how the experience-based route should work, including questions about the proposed decision-making model, eligibility criteria and process requirements. Responses to the consultation are required by 20 May 2024.
Take part in the consultation here: Experience-based route for early years practitioners - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
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Early years child development training New module available – Effective curriculum and assessment
Module 7 – Effective curriculum and assessment is now available on Early years child development training.
This module covers:
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·effective implementation of the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) learning and development and assessment requirements
·planning and implementing your curriculum effectively
·using non-statutory guidance to inform curriculum planning and implementation
·carrying out effective, purposeful observation and assessment in your early years context
·how different factors can impact on curriculum success, especially the practitioner’s role, the approach to teaching and the setting’s culture and environment
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Sign in to your account to continue the training.
Contact child-development.training@education.gov.uk for further help or to give us feedback.
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If you have any information you would like adding to the Mailout please send by email to fish@eastriding.gov.uk |
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