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Early Years Foundation Stage Conference: Connection is the Foundation – 8 October, Exeter
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
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)
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
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
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!
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
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
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
View the latest jobs in early years and childcare.
Early Years Single Request for Support (EYSRfS) launch – September 2026
Important update for early years providers – from September 2026, the Early Years and Childcare Service will introduce a new Early Years Single Request for Support (EYSRfS) process. This will provide a single route for accessing early years inclusion support and funding, replacing the previous approach where providers needed to identify and access different services separately.