Month: July 2023

The Digest is taking a break over the summer period. The Digest will be back early September 2023 to bring you the latest news and updates.

If you are a parent of a child or young person, please complete this years Parents Childcare Survey by Sunday 10th September 2023. Please share this with families that you work with.

With the introduction of the new entitlements from April 2024, more funding will be claimed each term and we are therefore planning to move to monthly payments from Spring Term 2024.

Did you know that since May 2016 childcare providers have had the Right to Request the use of school premises when they are not being used by the school? Parents also have a Right to Request that schools provide childcare.

Information on vaccines offered in the UK; how they work and why they’re safe and important.

Targeted Early Help through Devon Children’s Centres are delighted to be part of Devon County Council’s Early Help Service. Our dedicated and passionate team deliver a range of support, advice, inspiration and information to parents and carers with children aged 0-8 years old.

The Early Years and Childcare service at Devon County Council would like to acknowledge the incredible service that Start Right Nursery in Exeter have provided for children in Devon over the past 35 years.

Updates include: ‘Early years foundation stage (EYFS) statutory framework’; ‘Childcare regulatory changes 2023: equality impact assessment’; ‘Early years stronger practice hubs’; ‘Information sharing advice for safeguarding practitioners’; ‘Early years inspection handbook’ and ‘Education inspection framework (EIF)’.

View the latest jobs in early years and childcare.

The DfE has published details of the Early Years Supplementary Grant which outlines the increases in each of the Early Years Funding streams from September 2023.