Month: January 2025

Early Education and Childcare Provider Regional Roadshow for group-based setting leaders and managers takes place on 3 June 2025 in Bristol. Book your place now!

Are you a baby room educator or nursery manager? Are you extending your baby room or hoping to improve practice in the baby room? Come along to a FREE Saturday conference called ‘Getting it right in the baby room’. Dates include: 28 June in Falmouth and 12 July in Bristol.

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!