Year: 2022

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.

On Tuesday 29 March, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Sajid Javid, set out the next steps for living with COVID-19 in England from Friday 1 April. Free COVID-19 tests will continue to be available for specific groups, including eligible patients and NHS staff, once the universal testing offer ends on Friday 1 April.

Find the latest dates for safeguarding training at all levels.

Government updates.

A fully funded training course to support you to increase your knowledge of baby brain development, bonding and resilience, and be confident in sharing this information with parents/carers/communities. Course starts 15th March.

The Early Years and Childcare Service Funding Team will be running a training session on the completion of the spring term amendment task on Tuesday 22nd March 2022.

Funding streams this week include: Garfield Weston Foundation, The National Lottery Community Fund, Small Grants Scheme – Foyle Foundation and Emergency Essentials Programme – BBC Children in Need.

There will be no Digest next week (Friday 25th February). The Digest will resume on 4th March.

Following a successful bid for funding, Devon County Council and Babcock LDP will be offering an exciting opportunity to a select group of early years providers to extend their practice by training to become a Video Interactive Guidance (VIG) practitioner.

A reminder of the Devon Community Foundation: Thrive with 5, closing date coming up.