Year: 2025

The Devon Early Years and Childcare Service is pleased to announce an expansion of its Enhanced Safeguarding training in preparation for the upcoming Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) safeguarding reforms, which come into effect on 1st September 2025.

Calling all out of school childcare providers! Do you have trouble promoting your childcare? Do you have issues with recruitment and retention or become financially stable? We will be running fully funded training sessions on these topics- dates to be confirmed soon!

Devon County Council is offering fully funded eLearning training to provide insights and knowledge about conflict resolution in parental relationships.

Have you recently taken over responsibility for using the Provider Portal or need a refresher? The Early Years Funding Team will be running virtual training sessions on how to complete your summer amendment tasks. Sessions are running on 4 July at 11am and 7 July at 6.30pm.

Devon Safeguarding Children Partnership (DSCP) regularly publishes Learning Briefings to support reflection and discussion among practitioners and managers. The latest briefing is linked to early years and relates to non-accidental injury.

View the latest jobs in early years and childcare.

Learn about International Day of Play 2025, get fun and free play activities for your setting and families and help us make sure that every child everywhere can fulfil their right to play.

How to support babies and young children with their mental health.

A plan to “make play normal” again, including a call for play to become a statutory duty, has been launched in Westminster.

Helping early years providers offer healthy, balanced and nutritious food. From September 2025, providers must take this guidance into account and follow it unless there is good reason not to.