{"id":20227,"date":"2026-07-23T11:22:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T10:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/?p=20227"},"modified":"2026-07-23T11:22:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T10:22:35","slug":"building-strong-foundations-for-devons-children-with-free-local-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/building-strong-foundations-for-devons-children-with-free-local-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Building strong foundations for Devon\u2019s children with free local support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Parents and carers of young children in Devon are being encouraged to use free local support to help their child get ready for school.<\/p>\n<p>We are backing the national\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/beststartinlife.gov.uk\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Best Start in Life\u00a0<\/a>campaign, with a focus on children who will start school in September 2027.<\/p>\n<p>This includes children currently aged three to four, who are about to begin their final year in nursery or pre-school.<\/p>\n<p>Through Devon\u2019s Family Hubs, families can access a wide range of free advice, support and activities designed to boost early development,\u00a0communication\u00a0and confidence.<\/p>\n<p>Services are brought together in one place, making it easier for parents and carers to find the right help at the right time, close to home.<\/p>\n<p>Support is available to all families, and parents do not need a\u00a0referral\u00a0\u00a0to\u00a0access it.<\/p>\n<p>You can read the full article here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/news\/building-strong-foundations-devons-children-free-local-support\/?utm_source=e-shot&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Connect+Me+-+Friday+17+July&amp;es_c=5F6C379913CBC65446DBF52AAD066251&amp;es_cl=647725B270F6B19C260093BB386788DD&amp;es_id=xg%C2%A3r0\">Building strong foundations for Devon\u2019s children with free local support<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parents and carers of young children in Devon are being encouraged to use free local support to help their child get ready for school.\u00a0<\/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-20227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-30 15:52:26","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\/20227","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=20227"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20229,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20227\/revisions\/20229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}