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    This week's Coffee Break comes from Stephen Kilgour, our SEND Advisor, who takes a closer look at the benefits of creating a more natural and sustainable environment in any play-based setting.  It was quite a few years ago, on a visi…
    ‘Free to be me: exploring identity online.’  This year’s focus for Safer Internet Day in the UK was getting people to explore how they manage their online identity and think about how the internet shapes their own o…
      Change starts here. Change starts now. Change starts with us.  Between 11th – 15th November 2019, schools across England will be raising awareness of Anti-Bullying Week, which takes place nationally each year. The aims of …
    Education Policy Institute warns of Childcare sector losing staff to the Retail sector: The Education Policy Institute (EPI) has released a worrying report identifying great uncertainty over recruitment and retention, with growing report…
    FSF Jules attended the London event last week and has written comprehensively detailing the useful discussions that took place. You can read her thoughts and comment on them here. The official minutes (Published by the London OBC group) can…
    Ofsted are holding Early Years Curriculum Workshops, which are taking place on various dates and in various locations. The purpose of these workshops is to discuss early years issues as they arise in relation to the new inspection framewo…
    The Guardian have published an interesting piece of research today regarding the number of men currently employed within the early years sector. You can read the article here and discuss it here.
    The Children’s Services Omnibus, Wave 4 Research Report, December 2018 has been published and has identified that some Local Authorities are struggling to implement the available funding for disadvantaged 2 year olds effectively. The re…
    Ofsted have announced those that they have chosen to be on their early years pedagogy and practice forum. There is a wide range of knowledge and expertise amongst the forum members. It will be extremely interesting to hear how their discus…
    Amanda Spielman's report was published last week. The headlines from the early years section summary are as follows: "Inspection outcomes for providers on the Early Years Register (EYR) remain strong. More than nine out of 10 were good or …
    Figures released by the DfE at the end of last week (29/11) highlighted the fall in new entrants to an early years teacher training course in the 2018/2019 academic year. Figures this year, at 365, are down from 550 last year. You can read…
    On October 30th Ofsted released a series of updates and reviews to their registration regulation and requirement documents - the link to the Ofsted site is here, the link to the single registration and regulation document is here and the…
    We have just published our half-termly newsletter. If you want a 'whistle-stop tour' of what has been happening on the forum since the end of July then the newsletter is a really good place to start. You can read about all the updates and c…
    You may have read some of the furore in the EY press over the weekend regarding Gill Jones' comments on singing in nursery. Gill, Ofsted’s deputy director of early education, told an NAHT conference that the demise of singing in nursery …
    Ofsted’s new inspections report website is going live on Tuesday 2 October, after which the existing reports site will no longer be available. The new site has been in BETA (testing) for a number of months alongside the old site. The new …
    The Study of Early Education and Development (SEED), commissioned in 2012, includes a major longitudinal study designed to help the Department for Education (DfE) by providing evidence on the effectiveness of early years education and by id…
     The DfE has today released the research report "Evaluation of the first year of the national rollout of 30 hours free childcare" . There is an awful lot of data to digest! The key findings are detailed on this thread
    Following a request for clarification from the experts at Early Education it has now been confirmed that the Characteristics of Effective Learning will remain statutory in the new EYFS framework. You can read Early Education's response …
    Ofsted is setting up a forum for academics, practitioners and researchers to talk about a wide range of early years issues.  How do young children learn to read? What is the best way for them to develop physical skills? …
     Ofsted have today released the new EY3 form for childminders and other childcare providers to tell them about changes to childminding assistants, household members or certain people in organisations. You can download the form here and dis…
    The new document replaces Working Together to Safeguard Children (2015).  There are some amendments that will need to be written into policies and procedures, the NSPCC has provided an extremely useful guide to the changes. Additionally, …
    On 3 March 2017, the Department for Education (DfE) published the early years workforce strategy that included the intention to work with the sector and awarding organisations to develop criteria for the content of level 2 childcare qualifi…
    The announcement means that childcarers will no longer be disqualified from providing childcare or working in non-domestic childcare settings simply because someone who lives or works in their household is disqualified. The new rules do not…
    BERA's analysis of the proposed baseline assessment for Reception children does not look favourably on the intended system. They say: "In the panel’s view the proposed baseline assessment will not lead to accurate comparisons being made …
    The materials to be used by the EYFSP pilot schools have been published following the announcement by Children and Families Minister Nadhim Zahawi on Friday. You can read the full announcement here. From September, 25 schools across the co…