Year: 2025

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.

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.

It’s Funding Friday and this week we have funding information from ‘Devon County Council: Locality Budgets 2025/26’.

There will be no Digest next week (w/c 26 May 2025). The Digest will resume after the half term break!

Early years and childcare managers can now use the new check an early years qualification digital service to quickly verify whether staff qualifications meet the requirements for staff:child ratios in England.

Bookings for the HAF Summer programme will go live on Monday 9th June 2025 at 8am.

Get ready to embrace nature like never before! 30 Days Wild is The Wildlife Trusts’ annual challenge event, where we ask you to take on wild activities throughout June.