The Department for Education offers free resources, activities and support articles for people working in early years via Help for Early Years Providers. Find helpful…

This free online training by the Department for Education is written by early years experts and aims to build and strengthen early years educators’ knowledge…

SEN and Disability in the Early Years Toolkit Children and the Council for Disabled Children (CDC) produced a toolkit for SEN and disability in the early years….

  Public Health England (PHE) and the Department for Education’s (DfE) Best Start in Speech, Language and Communication Programme aims to improve the rate of…

This vodcast explores simple and effective ways to help strengthen everyday practice and support children’s learning. This vodcast is part 3 of 3. Seb Thorpe…

This vodcast focuses on safer sleep for early years settings, specifically the update to the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) which comes into effect from 1…

On 13 July 2026 we published updated EYFS frameworks for childminders and group and school-based providers, which apply from 1 September 2026.  The main changes from that date are…

Applications are open for early years providers and schools to apply for the early education partnership funding opportunity. Early education partnerships will strengthen relationships between…

Due to the Crime and Policing Act 2026, there is a change to regulated activity which will come into force in September 2026. The change…