Month: January 2025

View the latest training and development opportunities for early years and childcare practitioners.

Over the next few weeks we will share some of the resources and services that Devon provides as part of its early years offer. This week we will share the work of our Nursery Plus team.

The 2023-2024 Childcare Sufficiency Assessment Report was signed off at Cabinet on 8 January 2025. Anyone interested in expanding or setting up new early years and childcare provision in Devon should read the report to determine where more places are needed.

The Childcare Works toolkits bring together everything you need to grow, sustain and start childcare provision.  With content curated by experts, you will find a wealth of useful and relevant information, all in one place.

View the latest training and development opportunities for early years and childcare practitioners.

We are collecting orders for BookTrust Pre-schooler packs for those children in targeted areas of South Devon, so please look out for the email in the next week.

Become a Building Babies’ Brain Champion by joining us on our Building Babies’ Brains fully funded series of workshops to support you to increase your knowledge of baby brain development, bonding and resilience, and be confident in ‘passing on’ this information to parents/carers/communities. Sessions start on 24 Jan in Exeter (6 sessions running from Jan – March).

We would like to congratulate Kennford Playbox on achieving ‘Outstanding’ in their recent Ofsted inspection. Well done!

The DfE have awarded the extension of the wraparound Childcare funding to March 2026. This means any school or private provider who opens a new childcare provision before March 2026, could receive at least one year’s funding. Find out more by attending one of our free briefing sessions which are open to schools, private or independent providers and childminders. Sessions will run in Jan, Feb and March.

Please see important update about the Spring 2025 Headcount Task.