Year: 2024

The Big Listen was launched in March. It gave professionals, children and learners, parents, carers, and the public an opportunity to give their feedback across 4 areas: Ofsted’s culture, inspection practice, reporting and the impact of inspection. Ofsted has now published the response to the Big Listen, setting out the actions they will take to address what they have heard.

NSPCC Learning, along with the PSHE Association, has updated its Talk PANTS resources for nurseries and primary schools to help keep children safe from sexual abuse.

Useful updates and resources for your setting around preventing and managing cases and outbreaks of infectious diseases.

As of 4 September 2024, the process for reporting a Critical Incident impacting a school or educational setting in Devon has changed.

Some members of the Nursery Plus Team have been undertaking Video Interaction Guidance (VIG) training. VIG is a positive strengths-based approach to analysing interactions between adults and children in order to support practice and relationships. We look forward to the opportunity to share it with you in our future Nursery Plus work.

We would like to congratulate two of our Devon Childminders on achieving ‘Outstanding’ in their recent Ofsted inspections. Well done!

News and updates from Devon Family Hubs.

Are you interested in working with children in a school or childcare setting? Learn Devon has a number of courses and qualifications to help you along the way.

This week we have funding streams from: ‘The Clothworkers’ Foundation’; ‘Bernard Sunley Foundation grants’; ‘The Steel Charitable Trust’; ‘BBC Children in Need’; ‘Garfield Weston Foundation’ and ‘Tesco Stronger Starts Fund’.

A welcome to New Academic Year from Nikki Phillips Early Years and Childcare Service Operational Lead.