Early Years and Childcare Newsletter

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12 November 2025

Early Years and Childcare Service Newsletter

This newsletter contains the following items:

New ways to access childcare advice
Follow, like and share our Facebook page
Ofsted Updates
Department for Education updates

New ways to access childcare advice

The Hounslow Family Information Services have introduced two new ways for parents to get information and advice on:

Childcare options
Financial support for childcare
Starting nursery class at school

Parents can now speak to us either face-to-face at a Family Hub or online via a pre-booked Microsoft Teams session. We would love your support in sharing this with families who may benefit.

Visit our contact page to see how parents can get in touch, including the online form to book an appointment for childcare advice: https://fsd.hounslow.gov.uk/SynergyWeb/access_channels.aspx

Follow, like and share our Facebook page

We want to reminder you of the Hounslow Children and Families Facebook page that is available. We regularly post updates for parents including:

Reminders for applying or renewing childcare codes
Holiday activities
Nursery and reception application dates
And much more!

Please follow, like and share our page to help us reach more families. www.facebook.com/LBHChildrenandFamilies

Ofsted updates

Ofsted have released a series of updates. The links to the updated guidance is below.

Principles for carrying out early years inspection and regulatory work without notice

Principles for carrying out early years inspection and regulatory work without notice - GOV.UK

Early Years and Childcare: Ofsted's enforcement policy

Early years and childcare: Ofsted's enforcement policy - GOV.UK

Principles for deciding when more than one inspector is needed for early years inspection and regulatory activity

Principles for deciding when more than one inspector is needed for early years inspection and regulatory activity - GOV.UK

Publication of outcome summaries

Publication of outcome summaries - GOV.UK

Equality duties on education inspection

Equality duties on education inspection - GOV.UK

Ofsted's code of conduct: collaborative inspection and regulation

Ofsted's code of conduct: collaborative inspection and regulation - GOV.UK

Ofsted inspection and visits: deferring, pausing and gathering additional evidence

Ofsted inspections and visits: deferring, pausing and gathering additional evidence - GOV.UK

Department for Education updates

The below guidance has recently been updated. Please see updated links.

Early Years qualification list: U.K. only

Early years qualifications list: UK only - GOV.UK

Disclosure and Barring service

DBS launches national campaign to raise awareness of legal duty to refer - GOV.UK

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