{"id":18545,"date":"2025-09-04T10:35:32","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T09:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/?p=18545"},"modified":"2025-09-04T10:35:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T09:35:32","slug":"early-years-employment-reference-template","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/early-years-employment-reference-template\/","title":{"rendered":"Early years employment reference template"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Department for Education have produced an <a href=\"https:\/\/view.officeapps.live.com\/op\/view.aspx?src=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.publishing.service.gov.uk%2Fmedia%2F68a883c7969253904d1557c5%2FEarly_years_employment_reference_template_2025.docx&amp;wdOrigin=BROWSELINK\" rel=\"noopener\">early years employment reference template<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This form will help early years providers give references for current and former employees. It includes questions about the person\u2019s role, safeguarding history, and suitability to work with children which is now a requirement within the new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/early-years-foundation-stage-framework--2\" rel=\"noopener\">Early Years Foundation Stage Statutory Framework Sept 2025.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This form will help early years providers give references for current and former employees. It includes questions about the person\u2019s role, safeguarding history, and suitability to work with children which is now a requirement within the new Early Years Foundation Stage Statutory Framework Sept 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-18545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-01 12:45:25","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\/18545","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=18545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18546,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18545\/revisions\/18546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}