Skip to content
  • Devon County Council
  • Menu
  • Council updates
    • Devon news
    • Devon jobs
    • Local government reorganisation (LGR)
    • Strategic plan
  • Council services
    • Adult social care
    • Children, families and education
    • Community and living
    • Democracy and transparency
    • Economy, enterprise and skills
    • Environment and landscape
    • Healthy and active
    • Inside the Council
    • Libraries and heritage
    • Planning and development
    • Roads and transport
    • Waste and recycling
    • A to Z
  • Help
    • Accessibility help
    • Contact us
    • Freedom of information
    • Visiting County Hall
    • Feedback
    • Help us improve services
Devon County Council - logo

Information for childcare providers

Devon County Council

  • Home
  • For providers – operational guidance
  • Working in early years and childcare
  • What’s new
  1. Home
  2. 2026
  3. Page 4

Year: 2026

  • Early years and childcare job adverts – w/c 21/09/2026

    Posted on 24 September 2026 in News and updates

    View the latest jobs in early years and childcare (including school aged childcare roles).

  • Early Years Foundation Stage Conference: Connection is the Foundation – 8 October, Exeter

    Posted on 17 September 2026 in News and updates

    Just 3 weeks to go! Have you booked your place yet? 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.

  • Guidance for teachers completing the EYFS profile

    Posted on 17 September 2026 in News and updates

    The new Early Years Foundation Stage Profile Handbook was published on the 17th of September. This guidance is intended to help teachers to complete the EYFS profile assessment. We are also running fully funded workshops in October.

  • Early years qualifications list (EYQL)

    Posted on 17 September 2026 in News and updates

    The EYQL shows all the qualifications that are approved by the Department for Education (DfE) as full and relevant for working as a qualified member of staff in an early years setting in England. It is now available as an online web view format which replaces the previous spreadsheet-based version and provides a more accessible way for users to search, view and understand qualification information online.

  • Information sharing duty: what early years providers need to know

    Posted on 17 September 2026 in News and updates

    A new Information Sharing Duty Statutory Guidance came into effect in September 2026, bringing greater clarity about when information should be shared to help safeguard and promote the welfare of children.

  • Working together to keep children and staff well and in schools and settings

    Posted on 17 September 2026 in News and updates

    Useful resources, updates, and wider service signposting which we hope you may find useful in keeping children, young people and staff as healthy as possible.

  • Give your child the Best Start in Life with EasyPeasy!

    Posted on 17 September 2026 in News and updates

    Devon County Council is excited to offer you free, premium access to EasyPeasy – an app full of parenting tips, advice and activities for you and your 0-5 year old.

  • Exciting opportunity to establish or expand high-quality early years provision in South Molton

    Posted on 17 September 2026 in News and updates

    The Pip Centre, South Molton, in partnership with Devon County Council, is inviting Expressions of Interest from established and/or new early years and childcare providers to operate from The Pip Centre, South Molton.

  • Childminders: report new people in the setting

    Posted on 17 September 2026 in News and updates

    If you are a childminder, you must tell Ofsted within 14 days about new people aged 16 or over who live or work in the home where you look after children.

  • Early years and childcare job adverts – w/c 14/09/2026

    Posted on 17 September 2026 in News and updates

    View the latest jobs in early years and childcare.

Posts navigation

← Older posts
Newer posts →

Search all news

Monthly archive

  • October 2026
  • September 2026
  • July 2026
  • June 2026
  • May 2026
  • April 2026
  • March 2026
  • February 2026
  • January 2026
  • December 2025
  • November 2025
  • October 2025
  • September 2025
  • August 2025
  • July 2025
  • June 2025
  • May 2025
  • April 2025
  • March 2025
  • February 2025
  • January 2025
  • December 2024
  • November 2024
  • October 2024
  • September 2024
  • July 2024
  • June 2024
  • May 2024
  • April 2024
  • March 2024
  • February 2024
  • January 2024
  • December 2023
  • November 2023

Top
  • Adult Social Care
  • Children, Families and Education
  • Community and Living
  • Democracy and Transparency
  • Economy and Enterprise
  • Environment and Landscape
  • Healthy and Active
  • Inside the Council
  • Libraries and Heritage
  • Planning and Development
  • Roads and Transport
  • Waste and Recycling
Devon County Council
Devon County Council, County Hall, Topsham Road, Exeter, Devon EX2 4QD
Our contact numbers
  • Contact email

    csc.cyps@devon.gov.uk
  • Contact number

    0345 155 1019
  • Disclaimer
  • Cookies
  • Copyright
  • Privacy
  • Security
  • Accessibility