Month: February 2025

Early years funding rates for 2025/26. Please share this information with your managers, finance colleagues and other staff that need to be informed.

This week we find out more about SEND Support Consultations.

Find out about the new ‘equivalent hours’ which means childcare must continue to at least 5.30pm. You can still apply for the funding even if you don’t have a need to open until 6pm. Find out how to apply for wraparound childcare and book onto one of our free briefing sessions running 20 Feb at 9.30am and 13 March at 7pm.

We would like to congratulate one of our Devon Childminders on achieving ‘Outstanding’ in their recent Ofsted inspections. We would also like to congratulate Beaford Community Primary & Nursery School on achieving ‘Outstanding’ for their early years provision.

Join Devon Music Education Hub and Take Art for an inspiring conference focused on the transformative role of music and the arts in early childhood development. Conference takes place on Friday 21 March 2025 at Future Skills Centre, Exeter.

This guide has been designed to support you as a manager in creating and managing more flexibility within your team.

Emails have gone out to Funded Providers this week asking them to review, check and complete their Provider Self Update and complete the Early Years Census by 16 February.

Following the announcement that the HAF programme will be funded for 2025 /26 we are pleased to share that the funding round is set to go live on Monday 10 February 2025.

The Early Years and Childcare Service are running virtual briefing sessions for all potential providers (schools, private or independent providers and childminders) around wraparound childcare funding. Sessions are running on 12 Feb at 12.30pm, 20 Feb at 9.30am and 13 March at 7pm.

Join this live webinar to discover more about early years training programmes and apprenticeships including Early Years Practitioner, Early Years Educator and Early Years Lead Practitioner.