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May 2024
Wave 2 of the DfE's Do Something BIG recruitment campaign starts on 10 June.
This multi-million pound campaign promotes early years and childcare careers across multiple advertising channels, highlighting the huge difference early years professionals make to young children and how rewarding working in the sector can be. It directs potential applicants to use DWP’s Find a Job vacancy platform to search for early years roles in their area.
Please upload your early years vacancies ahead of the next wave of the campaign. If you do not already have a Find a Job account, and have any current or upcoming roles in your setting, please watch these video tutorials to help you create an employer account and post your jobs. You should use the term ‘early years’ in the title of your job adverts and select ‘Education jobs’ for the job category.
This service is free to use and will ensure your vacancies are seen by a large pool of potential candidates.
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On Thursday 16th May, Haxey Pre-school CIO attended Greater Lincolnshire Apprentice of the Year awards.
Ryan Hughes, an apprentice at the setting, won Education Apprentice of the year!
Laura Kirk, manager of Haxey Pre-school CIO, said "Ryan is ALWAYS wanting to learn more and puts 110% effort into his key children's learning and development. His attitude alone is inspiring and he is a role model for young men everywhere, looking to join a career with children."
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The DfE are seeking views on their proposals to strengthen the safeguarding requirements within the statutory framework for the EYFS. These proposals have been informed by extensive engagement with providers, health professionals, sector stakeholders and safeguarding experts and using lessons learned from previous incidents. Changes include:
• Amendments to ensure safer recruitment including new requirements to obtain references and requiring safeguarding policies to include procedures to follow to 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 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.
The closing date of the consultation is Monday 17 June 2024. The consultation can be found here. The DfE have also done a vodcast to understand the changes.
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North Lincolnshire Council Health Protection Team would like to invite residents to their face-to-face MMR Community Focus Group. The Health Protection Team are interested in your thoughts and opinions regarding the MMR vaccination and other vaccines. If you are a resident of North Lincolnshire the team would like to invite you to their first face-to-face MMR community focus group.
Whilst we appreciate your time is valuable we believe it would be beneficial for our community to gather community insights. If the focus group is something you are interested in attending please scan the QR code or click this link to complete the short questionnaire.
Please note the time or date of the focus group has not yet been scheduled. Full completion of the questionnaire, including an email address, is required for you to be invited to the group.
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A new post-September 2024 tab has been added to the Early Years Qualifications List (EYQL), following the publication of the new Level 3 Early Years Educator (EYE) criteria, which is effective from September 2024. The “Guidance” tab of the EYQL has also be updated with information on what the new tab means.
In summary, to count as a full & relevant (F&R) qualification, enabling the holder to count within staff:child ratios at level 3 in early years settings in England:
- Qualifications started on or after 1 September 2024 and before 1 September 2025 must be listed on either the post-Sept 2014 tab or the post-Sept 2024 tab.
- Qualifications started on or after 1 September 2025 must be listed on the post-Sept 2024 tab.
No qualifications have been removed.
The newest theme in the Early Years Evidence Store explores how early years professionals can support young children’s early self-regulation and executive function. It highlights five approaches that you can weave into your practice to support children’s early development in this area:
1. Creating and navigating challenge
2. Teaching self-monitoring and self-awareness
3. Creating a community of collaborative learners
4. Promoting physical activity
5. Promoting talk about learning (Coming soon)
Find out more here.
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Help for Early Years Providers has a wealth of resources, case studies and toolkits intended to support to support the health and wellbeing of practitioners in the early years sector. Those working in the early years make a huge difference to young children's lives, and it is crucial settings support and encourage the health and wellbeing of their staff, and practitioners know where they can turn if they need support. This will create a positive learning environment for children, where their personal, social, and emotional development is encouraged.
Visit the Help for Early Years Providers early years practitioner wellbeing support page and read our Foundation Years blog post for more information and resources on how to support your own wellbeing, and provide support to those around you.
The early years child development training is an online programme that is free to access. It has been designed by early years professionals to help early years practitioners build and strengthen their knowledge and understanding of child development.
Module 7: Effective curriculum and assessment is now available and covers:
- effective implementation of the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) learning and development assessment requirements
- planning and implementing your curriculum effectively
- using non-statutory and statutory guidance to inform curriculum planning and implementation
- considering different factors that impact on effective curriculum implementation
- purposeful observation and assessment
This new module is now available along with 6 other modules including child and brain development, personal, social, and emotional development, communication and language, physical development, and mathematics.
You can complete the training modules in any order, at any time. Sign in to your account and visit the My modules page of the training to access this new module. If you haven’t yet accessed the training, and would like to learn more and register, please visit Early years child development training.
Outdoor Thinking is an evidence-informed approach supporting young children in any EYFS setting to thrive through making the most of the potential of the outdoors.
This programme has been designed by drawing on high-quality evidence and the expertise of the team at Outdoors Thinking.
Within the context of significant mental health concerns and the reported continuing negative impacts of the Covid 19 pandemic for the youngest children, this programme will help practitioners to harness the extraordinary ability of the outdoors to support children’s personal, social and emotional development (PSED).
More information on the programme can be found here.
Join St Edmund's Early Years Practice Hub for a webinar delivered by Dominic Gunn, an Early Education Associate, who has substantial experience as a teacher and SENCO across all age groups. The webinar will be held on Tuesday 18th June 2024 at 7pm - 8pm. For more information and to reserve your place please visit here.
This project aims to support the development of self-regulation in 3-4 year olds. The way this will be achieved is through the use of Emotion Coaching by adults in your setting in their everyday interactions with children. More information can be found here.
Emotion Coaching UK are looking for early years settings from matched Stronger Practice Hubs to take part in this exciting research project starting Autumn 2024. If you would like to find out more about taking part in the project, click HERE or fill in the survey .
Yorkshire and Humber Together Stronger Practice Hub, are delivering the above training. This will be held online on Wednesday 5th June 2024, 4pm - 5.30pm and will give the opportunity to share creative ideas and good practice. Book a place via email natalie.sph@childhaven.n-yorks.sch.uk.
Developing Play in the Early Years - Monday 17th June, 7-8.30pm - online
Understand how the three areas of difference in autism impact on the development of play skills. Understand how to support autistic children to develop play skills
Making Sense of Autism in the Early Years - Monday 1st July, 7-8.30pm - online
Approaching autism as a difference not as a deficit. Working together with all adults involved
To book a place on either course email natalie.sph@childhaven.n-yorks.sch.uk
Residents in North Lincolnshire have free access a whole range of safety guides including child safety at home and fitting car seats safely. Access these guides here.
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Words for Life have developed a walk and talk trail. Parents can use these cards to help them to talk to their baby or child while out and about. More information can be found here.
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