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Following the cross-sector consultation the cabinet office has published its report this week. The key findings are as follows: • Inspections: there are inconsistencies between inspectors and a need for a balanced and targeted inspection regime, where consistent good performers are rewarded. • Relationship with the Local Authority: the current relationship between private, voluntary and independent childcare providers and their Local Authorities is inconsistent across the country and often incongruous with OFSTED’s regulatory regime • Workforce skills: there is a view that the current qualifications requirements restrict the career progression of capable staff and make…
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The Pre-school Learning Alliance has brought together all the information (that we know so far) regarding the changes coming to EY in the next year. If you are a member they will send you a copy - otherwise it is free to download. EY funding and delivery changes.pdf
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Hi! Does anyone know if the extra 15 hours that are expected to come in from September for working parents will need to be teacher led if the nursery is part of a primary school. Our Foundation Stage adviser has told us to continue as we are which is 15 hours teacher-led (every morning) and child-care in the afternoon run by teaching assistants. However, I'm not sure this will be ok. Thanks Green Hippo
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This report, published yesterday, explains the impact of parenting and early years on the social mobility of children. I have posted the summary document here. If you want to read the complete report it is here..
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Over the weekend, the Government has released their response to the consultation about the 30 hours delivery. You can read it here It is quite a lengthy document - once we have all had a chance to read and digest the contents we can discuss them here!
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Building Blocks is the largest sector-wide survey open to all early years and childcare professionals working in England, from childminders to nannies to nursery and pre-school staff. It provides a valuable, regular health check on the state of the early years sector in England. In this survey we ask questions about your experience, qualifications and training, working conditions, finances and future plans. We also want to know your views on the big issues facing the sector, such as the 30-hour free early education and childcare entitlement and Level 3 GCSE requirements – in order to make sure your collective voice is heard by the Government and Ofsted. Whether you a…
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The preschool learning alliance have a campaign at the moment for fairer funding. You can get involved here http://www.pre-school.org.uk/fairfuturefunding
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Just published today for those of you that like a statistical read. Key points, Goos level of deep mentioned has gone up again, gender gap has narrowed slightly, as has the attainment gap. Still digesting at the moment. https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/early-years-foundation-stage-profile-results-2015-to-2016
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Ofsted have released the annual report of their Parents Panel. They give feedback on the responses of the panel and also explain how to become part of the parent panel if you are interested. Parent Panel report You can apply to join the Parent Panel from here: Parent panel
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It has been confirmed today that the EYFS Profile will now remain in place for the 2017 to 2018 academic year! So we can presume that we will have two more years of EYFS Profile results, Summer 2017 and Summer 2018 Foundation Years: Great early years and childcare bulletin: The DfE has published the Early Years Foundation Stage Profile result: 2015 to 2016. The profile results show that nationally, 69.3 per cent of children achieved a good level of development, an increase of 3 percentage points (ppts) on 2015. The gap for children achieving at least the expected level in all early learning goals decreased nearly 1 percentage point from 16.6 ppts in …
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