Urgent and important information and training events...!
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Ofsted webinar
Foundation Years?is delighted to have Gill Jones, Deputy Director Early Education, and Wendy Ratcliff, Education Policy Team, from Ofsted to?provide a Foundation Years webinar to talk to the Early Years sector and answer questions on the new Education Inspection Framework.
A recording of the webinar is now available to view on the Foundation Years website.?Please click here.
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Volunteers needed! To help hungry children!
Can you spare a couple of hours a week during the summer holidays? Colleagues running the 'Fun and Summer Food' project are looking for volunteers Tues ? Friday 9am ? 11am to make up packed lunches for our children?s activities over the summer holidays. This is a vital service as we know in many cases this can be the first food the children get that day.
For dates volunteers are required and more information please click here.
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DfE consultation launched on early years childcare fees?
The Department for Education (DfE) has launched a public consultation seeking views on a proposed increase to the application fee and the annual fee paid to Ofsted by childcare providers on the Early Years Register, with a view to changes coming into force from April 2020.?
The DfE is also seeking views on the principles that should underpin a revised Early Years Register fee model to be introduced from April 2021.? The consultation is available here and will run for 12 weeks from 18 July to 9 October 2019. ?
If, for exceptional reasons, you are unable to use the online system, for example because you use specialist accessibility software that is not compatible with the system, you may download a copy of the form from the Gov.UK/DfE Consultations website and email it to [email protected] or post it to:
Early Years Fees Consultation Early Years and Schools Group Department for Education 2nd Floor,
Sanctuary Buildings
Great Smith Street
London, SW1P 3BT
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Mathshub - Metacognition in the Early Years
The Mathshub East Midlands West is delighted to announce details of their Metacognition in the Early Years work group for 2019/20.? Metacognitive strategies are well aligned with the EYFS characteristics of effective learning, which suggests that metacognition could support children in early years to learn effectively, including in early years maths. The intention of this work group is to develop practitioners? practice to more effectively support children?s metacognition in early maths.
This work group is suitable for all early years practitioners (those school-based and in PVI settings including mixed age classes/settings with some children in the EYFS age range).??They are looking to work with between 10 ? 15 settings, 1 person per setting only.
Measles don?t let your child catch it! ? Information for parents
Measles is in the news again. There have been serious outbreaks in Wales and England and the number of children catching measles is rising. Measles can be a very serious disease, leading to ear and chest infections, fits, diarrhoea, and damage to the brain. Measles can kill.
Please click here for the?modern slavery pathway with identifications and indicators and contact details to make a referral.
If a case heard at MARAC or dealt with by Police Public Protection or the Women?s Aid IDVA team is suspected of being Modern Slavery please contact the Modern Day Slavery Team at NCC for advice: [email protected]
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Early Outcomes Fund
In Nottingham, 67.8% of all children achieve the expected level of development for communication and language and literacy (combined) compared to 72.4% of children nationally.? To support us in our work to improve speech, language and communication skills in the early years across the city, we have been awarded Department for Education funding under the ?Early Outcomes Fund?. As part of this work, one of our partners, Better Communication CIC, are surveying support that settings currently receive or commission in relation to speech, language and communication needs. If you would like to contribute to this short online survey to help build the local picture, please go to https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/EarlyOutcomesFundSurveySchoolsSettings
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Early Years workforce research for the Nuffield Foundation
NatCen Social Research has been commissioned by the Nuffield Foundation to speak to early years workers and managers to explore what helps and hinders them hire, keep and train high quality staff.?They are inviting frontline staff, particularly junior members with Level Three qualifications and lower, to have an interview with us and contribute to this important project.
They?appreciate your time is precious, and?they will offer a ?50.00 book voucher as a thank you. Please click here for the leaflet and how to participate.
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