{"id":19661,"date":"2026-04-23T10:02:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T09:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/?p=19661"},"modified":"2026-04-23T11:05:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T10:05:40","slug":"further-advice-on-safer-sleep-from-the-department-for-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/further-advice-on-safer-sleep-from-the-department-for-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Further advice on safer sleep from the Department for Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The guidance <a href=\"https:\/\/help-for-early-years-providers.education.gov.uk\/health-and-wellbeing\/safer-sleep\" rel=\"noopener\">help for early years providers : safer sleep<\/a> created in collaboration with the Lullaby Trust, provides advice to help early years providers create and maintain safer sleep environments for babies and young children in their care.<\/p>\n<p>It includes information on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Providing an appropriate sleep space for babies and children<\/li>\n<li>Safe use of cots, mattresses, bedding and sleep bags<\/li>\n<li>Supervising children while they are sleeping<\/li>\n<li>What to do when babies and children fall asleep whilst travelling, managing their temperature, positioning and use of comforters.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Department for Education has also published answers to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foundationyears.org.uk\/2026\/04\/early-years-foundation-stage-eyfs-safer-sleep-requirements-frequently-asked-question\/\" rel=\"noopener\">frequently asked questions<\/a>\u00a0to help early years providers prepare for planned updates on safer sleep to the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) statutory framework, expected to come into effect from September 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The guidance, created in collaboration with the Lullaby Trust, provides advice to help early years providers create and maintain safer sleep environments for babies and young children in their care.<\/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-19661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-30 15:52:23","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\/19661","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=19661"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19681,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19661\/revisions\/19681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}