Year: 2024

Family Hubs provide a range of support to families with children aged from zero to 19, or up to 25 years old for young people with special educational needs or disabilities. Find out how to contact your local Family Hub.

Please complete the Provider Self Update as soon as possible if you have not already completed it. We also have a progress update on the Provider Self Update and Find Childcare.

Fully funded workshops running in September. The aim of the workshops is to provide a greater multi-agency understanding of thresholds, duties and family rights for family safeguarding; hear the views of our multi-agency partners in respect of the way we work together.

An overview of the NPQEYL for managers and leaders. Application window for next Oct/ Nov cohort is now open.

It’s Funding Friday and this week we have funding info from ‘Tesco Stronger Starts’.

Information about the different types of funding available for working families. Plus free online information sessions running in July!

The early years funding updates page on our website has been amended to include information on autumn forecast requests, academic calendar for 2024/25 and adding under 2s to a task in preparation for autumn funding.

If a school or educational setting has experienced a critical incident, it is important that the Local Authority are notified immediately so that any relevant support can be coordinated and put in place as soon as possible.

Please complete the parents childcare survey if you are a parent of a child or young person. Please also share it with the families that you work with, your friends and your family and on your website, social media platforms and newsletters. The closing date is Wednesday 31st July 2024. Thank you for your help.

The DfE have published updated statistics on children registered for funded early education and childcare entitlements in England. Devon figures are consistently higher than both the South West and England averages, particularly with respect to two year old take up.