Author: wayne.pearce

On December 14th, 2022, the Cabinet approved this year’s Childcare Sufficiency Report. The Annual Childcare Sufficiency Report (September 2021 to August 2022) includes all the required areas that we must report on in relation to early years and childcare provision for 0 – 17-year-olds in Devon.

On Tuesday 29 March, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Sajid Javid, set out the next steps for living with COVID-19 in England from Friday 1 April. Free COVID-19 tests will continue to be available for specific groups, including eligible patients and NHS staff, once the universal testing offer ends on Friday 1 April.

The collection of Early Years Attendance data will resume for November.  Providers will receive an email with a unique link to the survey on Thursday 4th November 2021 for return on Wednesday 10th November 2021.

Welcome to the October edition of the SEND newsletter.

NHS Devon Clinical Commissioning Group, (Devon CCG), is working jointly with Children and Family Health Devon and Livewell South West to undertake a review of the current community health contracts for children, delivered by Children and Family Health Devon, and Livewell South West, across Devon, Plymouth and Torbay.

Funding and financial support available for education, childcare and children’s social care organisations.

The Department for Education (DfE) have been made aware by Ofsted that some Early Years settings have not been reporting COVID-related closures to them because they think this is no longer a requirement.

We have made some changes regarding our internal processes for 2 year old funding and new invites are being sent to parents, however for providers you will see little change.

You may be using templates and documents in regards to two year old funding, for example, the Parent Declaration form. We are working our way through these templates and other documents and also checking our website to ensure we are using the correct terminology.

We will be running virtual training sessions about the completion of the Autumn Term Headcount task. These sessions will be held via Microsoft TEAMS on: Wednesday 29th September 2021 (11.00am – 12.00 noon) Monday 4th October 2021 (1.30pm – 2.30pm) For further details, or to book a place, please visit the DEL Training Website.  Once Continue reading →