Month: June 2025

The DYC My Young Carer Life Toolkit will facilitate an early understanding of whether the child or young person is caring, the extent of their involvement, and the effects this has on them.

Bow Bears pre-school in Bow, Nr Crediton, has celebrated its 50th anniversary.

International Day of Play took place on 11th June 2025. We would love to hear how you celebrated this special day!

Child Seat Safety, the national advisor for child car seats under Road Safety Great Britain, is a helpful resource. They offer expert guidance for both parents and professionals, including accredited training courses designed to ensure every journey is a safe one.

Changes to the Family Hubs / Locality Early Help support contact details.

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.