Month: March 2024

There will be no Digest during the Easter half term break. The Digest will resume w/c 15 April 2024.

Funding updates from the Early Years Funding team.

The DfE are consulting on proposals to support childminder recruitment and retention and support the role of childminder agencies in the sector. They are seeking views on their proposals, as well as gathering evidence on how they can best support childminders in future. Please give us your views and complete the survey by 10 May.

The Early Years Consultants and the Early Years Childcare Advisor teams will be delivering this fully funded training to inspire practitioners towards developing excellent practice when working with children from birth to 3 years old. Dates running throughout May.

Information sessions for early years setting staff and parents to support the play, communication and emotional development of children with complex needs.

It’s Funding Friday and this week we have funding streams from: ‘Wooden Spoon’ and ‘The Village Halls Small Grants Fund’.

Do you need to update your paediatric first aid training? New dates now available to book.

An update on supply costs for practitioners undertaking the Professional Development Programme.

This half day event will offer the opportunity to learn more about the Best Start in Life research reviews, what an effective curriculum for communication and language, PSED and physical development looks like in the early years, and how the prime areas of learning are looked at during an inspection.

We are inviting families, professionals and community organisations to help shape services that support young families. Please could we ask for your support in responding to this questionnaire and/ or in sharing this link to your families and other professionals you are connected with to invite as many responses as possible. Survey closes on 23 March.