Year: 2026

We are inviting all providers to provide some feedback on our proposal to combine all requests for support, services and funding into one streamlined process which will reduce paperwork and application processes.

Reception teachers, leaders and Early Years professionals (working with reception age children) across Devon are invited to join a new professional network designed to support collaboration and share best practice. The first in-person network meeting will take place on 15 June (9.30am – 1.30pm) at Broadclyst Community Primary School.

A Department for Education (DfE) funded workshop for professional dialogue to support the accurate assessment and submission of the Early Years Foundation Stage Profile (EYFSP). The online session will be held on Microsoft Teams on Wednesday 10th June, 9:30-11:30am.

We’re excited to let you know that Summer HAF bookings will open on Monday 8 June at 12pm! This Summer, in more than 170 locations across Devon, exciting holiday clubs will be offering fun, safe and engaging activities for children and young people.

We are pleased to let you know that safer recruitment training is now available on the Shop for early years and childcare practitioners.

This year’s conference explores how we build and sustain meaningful connection across all the places it happens: in the adult–child relationship, through peer play, in partnership with families, and in the everyday routines and experiences that shape children’s sense of safety and identity.

View the latest jobs in early years and childcare.

Every year we send out a parents childcare survey to parents living in Devon to find out information about their use of childcare. Please help us by sharing the survey to the families you work with.

Calling all early years and childcare providers in Devon – childminders, nurseries and pre-schools! Have you booked your place yet? This is your space to network, collaborate and influence – while also receiving key updates from the Early Years and Childcare Service.

The Department for Education’s Early years child development training is a free, online programme designed by early years experts to support practitioners working with children from birth to reception.