Month: April 2022

You can book your covid vaccination through the national booking service or visit a walk-in site. Please check your eligibility first.

We are aware that there are some issues with the ‘course search’ function on the DEL training website. The issue has been reported to the DEL support team and we hope to have it back up and running soon.

The Education Development Trust and the Department of Education will be updating the Local Authority on Early Years Practitioner attendance during the week commencing 2nd May 2022. Once we have this information we will be able to make payments for supply cover.

View the latest jobs in early years.

Funding streams this week include: The Happiness Fund and Oakland Foundation.

A new toolkit aims to help employers to share information on childcare with their employees.

Early years providers please complete a short survey for children and young people who are on Child in Need or Child Protection plans. Survey deadline: 29 April 2022. The Virtual School are also offering funded CPD training sessions for the Summer Term 2022.

Updates include: ‘Emergency planning and response for education, childcare, and children’s social care settings’, ‘Infection Prevention Control Measures’, ‘Support guides on Tax Free Childcare’ and ‘Early years foundation stage profile return: how to submit data’.

Devon County Council have launched a website containing information to support Ukrainian Families and sponsors. Please share the links with parents so any sponsor families have access to this information.

The Centre of Expertise on Child Sexual Abuse has created a series of 12 short films to accompany their practitioner guides, to give professionals the knowledge to identify concerns of child sexual abuse.