This guidance is intended to help practitioners plan to meet the diverse needs of all children. This section refers to principles for early years education which are drawn from, and are evident in, good and effective practice in early years settings.   Download Curriculum guidance for the foundation stage – Principles for early years education

The Coalition Government will inject £100m capital funding to support the delivery of new nursery and childminder places.   Two in five of the country’s two-year-olds will be eligible for 15 hours of free early years education per week by September 2014. This will help ensure that children are better prepared for school and will [...]

Following on from the success of last year’s events the Department for Education’s Early Years and Childcare’s strategic partnership is running a further round of FREE events focused on: • The Childcare Commission • Parenting Support • Implementation of the EYFS and update on EYFS assessment including the profile • Early Years data • Children [...]

Achieving Two Year Olds project is launched this month Mott MacDonald with its partner Hempsall’s has been appointed by the Department for Education to support the rollout of free early education places for less advantaged two-year olds.   The Government is introducing a legal requirement to secure free provision, through regulations under section 6 of [...]

  Sarah Teather, Minister for Children and Families, has today launched a consultation, Extending Free Early Education to More Two-year-olds, calling for views on the second phase of the roll out of free early education to around 40 per cent of two-year-old children from September 2014 – some 300,000 children.   Two-year-olds from families who [...]

1.    Can I order a hard copy of the new framework online? Reducing bureaucracy, alongside spending controls, has changed the way the Government produces and communicates guidance and other similar documents. The controls mean that hard copies of documents will rarely be produced and online versions are the default. Using a digital approach means that [...]