Blog post by Wendy Ratcliff HMI, Principal Officer, Early Education reflecting on where OFSTED roadshows have taken them this year, what was spoken about, and what providers and practitioners can take away from OFSTED research.<\/p>\n
Best Start in Life Curriculum Roadshows \u2013 what does our research mean for you and what\u2019s next? \u2013 Ofsted: early years<\/a><\/p>\n There will be a live webinar specifically designed for childminders on 16 December from 7pm to 8pm.<\/strong><\/p>\n In this webinar we will draw on the second part of our early years research review series, focussing on the importance of the prime areas of learning. In particular we will discuss:<\/p>\n This webinar is especially relevant to childminders.<\/p>\n Register your interest here: Registration<\/a><\/p>\n Register as a childminder without domestic premises<\/a>\u00a0– New application guidance for a new category of childcare provider – childminders who provide care solely from somewhere other than a home –\u00a0as part of a series of changes the Department for Education (DfE) has introduced to give the early years sector more flexibility. We at OFSTED\u00a0 have published a blog post\u00a0<\/a>by Jayne Coward, Deputy Director for Early Years Regulatory Policy and Practice,\u00a0and a series of videos\u00a0explaining the changes<\/a> and answering some questions that may arise:<\/p>\n Information around the new changes for childminders and childcare on domestic premises. There is also a webinar for childminders running on 16 December from 7pm to 8pm focussing on the importance of the prime areas of learning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-15 20:56:05","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17139,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17138\/revisions\/17139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Webinar for childminders<\/h3>\n
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Register as a childminder without domestic premises<\/h2>\n
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