Have you recently taken over responsibility for using the Provider Portal or need a refresher? The Early Years Funding Team will be running virtual training sessions on how to complete your summer amendment tasks. Sessions are running on 4 July at 11am and 7 July at 6.30pm.
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DSCP Learning Briefing – non accidental injury
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.
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Early years and childcare job adverts – w/c 09/06/2025
View the latest jobs in early years and childcare.
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Save the date – 11th June – International Day of Play
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.
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Infant Mental Health Awareness Week
How to support babies and young children with their mental health.
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‘It All Starts with Play!’ a new 10-year strategy — Play England
A plan to “make play normal” again, including a call for play to become a statutory duty, has been launched in Westminster.
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Early Years Foundation Stage nutrition
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.
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Early years and childcare job adverts – w/c 02/06/2025
View the latest jobs in early years and childcare.
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Funding Friday
It’s Funding Friday and this week we have funding information from ‘Devon County Council: Locality Budgets 2025/26’.
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Digest takes a break
There will be no Digest next week (w/c 26 May 2025). The Digest will resume after the half term break!