{"id":18466,"date":"2025-08-28T09:45:48","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T08:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/?p=18466"},"modified":"2025-08-28T12:14:52","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T11:14:52","slug":"safeguarding-special-safeguarding-policies-strengthened-and-new-draft-attendance-policy-introduced-ahead-of-eyfs-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/safeguarding-special-safeguarding-policies-strengthened-and-new-draft-attendance-policy-introduced-ahead-of-eyfs-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"Safeguarding special: Safeguarding policies strengthened and new draft attendance policy introduced ahead of EYFS changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Devon Early Years and Childcare Service has strengthened its\u00a0safeguarding policies\u00a0and introduced a\u00a0draft attendance policy\u00a0to support early years providers in preparing for the\u00a0EYFS statutory framework changes coming in September 2025.<\/p>\n<p>These updates reflect the revised safeguarding and welfare requirements and aim to help providers ensure consistent, high-quality practice across all settings.<\/p>\n<p>Providers can access the updated documents by visiting the early years and childcare service website: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/for-providers\/safeguarding\/model-policies\/\">Model policies and guidance &#8211; Information for childcare providers<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For support or further guidance, please contact your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/for-providers\/early-years-and-childcare-adviser-contacts\/\">Early Years and Childcare Adviser (EYCA)<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Devon Early Years and Childcare Service has strengthened its\u00a0safeguarding policies\u00a0and introduced a\u00a0draft attendance policy\u00a0to support early years providers in preparing for the\u00a0EYFS statutory framework changes coming in September 2025.<\/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-18466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-17 20:48:59","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\/18466","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=18466"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18481,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18466\/revisions\/18481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}