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I got an email with this information in, today........ We are updating our online application system for childcare so that it supports the revised requirements for registration introduced by the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act on 1 January 2016. Our online system for childcare applications will be unavailable from Monday 9 May to Sunday 15 May (inclusive) whilst these changes are being made. This means that you will not be able to submit an EYO, CR1, EY2, CR2 or EYC form during this period and that you must submit any forms which are in progress before Monday 9 May. You will be unable to submit any forms started prior to 9 May after this date and you wil…
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For those who haven't seen this yet, the White Paper was published immediately after the budget which announced all school must become academies or on route to by 2020. This will affect our EYFS colleagues working in the maintained sector, and who know how and if it will impact on the non maintained sector over time. It will also affect those of us that are parents/grandparents of children still at school. The link is here https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/educational-excellence-everywhere As ever its a long document but from what I've read so far, a few things have popped out, which you may not be aware of from reports in the press over the past few da…
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Pilot areas for the 'free' 30 hours <_< http://www.nurseryworld.co.uk/nursery-world/news/1155788/dfe-names-30-hour-childcare-pilot-areas?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
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Hi Thought you might be interested in this from the Dept of Education Review of childcare costs: the analytical report An economic assessment of the early education and childcare market and providers’ costs
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If you get the Nursery World updates you may have seen the headline about linking child benefit to take up of early years entitlement. (if you got past the interview with Sam Gyimah, that is) After I had picked my jaw up from the floor, I did follow the link, which is below to the report. Reducing poverty by promoting diverse social networks According to Mr Mundia, there was much grunting and 'exclaiming What?!! whilst I was reading it. Perhaps it was just me, see what you think about taking child benefit off parents who don't use their entitlement, and how this might be 'policed', Its not the only recommendation, others relate to children centres and exp…
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Dear all For your information here is a link to Early Years Foundation Stage Profile results: 2014 to 2015
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Or I make it all up as I go along. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-34453564 Cx
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I could have put this in the Birmingham forum but you might all be interested in having a read. Personally I'm hoping Birmingham will either drop the whole thing or make sure our funding reflects the results. We can but hope! (scroll down the page) http://www.ndna.org.uk/NDNA/News/Press_releases_2015/NDNA_welcomes_KPMG_report_on_costs_of_early_years_education_for_Birmingham_and_hopes_for_constructiv.aspx
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https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/457006/Early_years_inspection_handbook.pdf Looks like its no longer 'draft'
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https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ofsted-early-years-report-2015 Worth a read to see which way the wind is blowig. In his speech he talks about the Baseline as not being of any use as it is not about each individual child, but a measure of the cohort. Watch this space then as it was his comments previously which gave us baseline in the first place. Cx
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