{"id":20652,"date":"2026-10-22T09:59:44","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T08:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/?p=20652"},"modified":"2026-10-22T12:10:25","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T11:10:25","slug":"connection-matters-devons-early-years-community-comes-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/connection-matters-devons-early-years-community-comes-together\/","title":{"rendered":"Connection matters: Devon\u2019s early years community comes together"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 215 early years professionals from across Devon came together at Sandy Park, Exeter on 8 October for the Devon Early Years Foundation Stage Conference 2026, a vibrant and inspiring day celebrating the power of connection.<\/p>\n<p>Practitioners, leaders and educators from a wide range of early years settings were joined by 20 exhibitors, two keynote speakers and five workshop hosts, all united by a shared commitment to helping young children thrive.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about this fantastic event on the Devon Education Services website: <a href=\"https:\/\/devoneducationservices.co.uk\/news\/connection-matters-devon-s-early-years-community-comes-together\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Connection matters: Devon\u2019s early years community comes together | DES<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20653\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20653\" style=\"width: 722px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-20653 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/96\/2026\/10\/eyfs-conference-2026.png\" alt=\"Early years foundation stage conference\" width=\"722\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/96\/2026\/10\/eyfs-conference-2026.png 722w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/96\/2026\/10\/eyfs-conference-2026-300x165.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 722px) 100vw, 722px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20653\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Early years practitioners listening to one of the keynote speakers at the early years foundation stage conference.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 215 early years professionals from across Devon came together at Sandy Park, Exeter on 8 October for the Devon Early Years Foundation Stage Conference 2026, a vibrant and inspiring day celebrating the power of connection.<\/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-20652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20652","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=20652"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20656,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20652\/revisions\/20656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}