The newsletters below are listed in chronological order (newest to oldest) by calendar year.
Newsletters for Early Years and Childcare providers
An archive of the newsletters for Early Years and Childcare providers.
November 2024
- Special newsletter - Safeguarding practices
- Issue 45/2024:
- Wraparound childcare grant funding reminder
- Spring term National Professional Qualification Early Years Leadership news
- Hampshire County Council Inclusion Conference 2025
- Information Commissioner's Office tool to develop bespoke privacy notices
- Ofsted videos for early years providers
- West Sussex Safeguarding Children Partnership newsletter October 2024
- Early Years training
- Issue 46/2024:
- Working families eligibility codes - Online Provider Portal webinars
- Post Headcount Exceptional Payment requests for eligible working families of children aged 9 months to 2 years - final reminder
- Early Years Funded Entitlement Payment consultation - Stage two mandatory survey
- New childminder category - childminders without domestic premises
- Updated Ofsted poster for parents
- Do you love working in early years and childcare
- We need your help
- Oral health support
- Early Years training
- Issue 47/2024:
- Safeguarding focus - Why language matters - criminal child exploitation
- Safeguarding special newsletter
- Early Years Funded Entitlement spring term 2025 estimates now open
- Early Years Funded Entitlement for working families - spring term code deadline
- Early Years and Childcare expansion - funding timeline of events
- Autumn budget 2024
- Kent Early Years Stronger Practice Hub November newsletter
- Early Years training
- Issue 48/2024:
- Business focus - Management and leadership courses
- Offering Early Years Funded Entitlement from January 2025
- Early Years Funded Entitlement - checking working families codes workshop
- Wraparound Childcare Funding Programme - 2024 deadline
- Starting school applications
- Creating accessible spaces for children with cerebral palsy
- Infection prevention
- Wellbeing and exercise in pregnancy programme social media launch
- Early Years training
- Special newsletter - Update on the breakfast clubs early adopter scheme
October 2024
- Issue 44/2024:
- Business focus: E-learning business support
- The West Sussex Safeguarding Children Partnership: invitation to November Partnership Group meeting
- Brighton and Hove childminder conference - November 2024
- Childcare Works Hub
- Early years provider business opportunity
- Early Years training
- Issue 43/2024:
- Early Years Funded Entitlement - autumn term actuals payments
- Autumn term post headcount exceptional payment requests for children aged 9 months to 2 years
- Inclusion/Special Educational Needs Coordinator networks autumn 2024
- Updated childhood immunisation web page
- Early years and childcare workforce steering group
- Passionate and inspiring leaders wanted for a project in secondary schools
- Changes to the Early Years Foundation Stage statutory framework
- Update - Ofsted Big Listen
- Issue 42/2024:
- Safeguarding focus: Supervising mealtimes - preventing choking
- Free support groups for early years practitioners
- Childhood immunisations - new web page
- Autumn term network presentations
- SEND and Inclusion Networks
- Brilliant Babies to Terrific Toddlers - a tool for reflection
- Help Ofsted to develop their understanding of vulnerability and inclusion
- Best Start in Life Ofsted report
- Early years provider business opportunity
- Early years training
- Issue 41/2024:
- Starting school applications
- Transition events
- Advertise and update your childcare vacancies
- Early years SEND assessment guidance and resources
- New training module available - supporting individual differences and needs
- New Ofsted blog post
- Early Years training
- Issue 40/2024:
- Business focus: Have you ever thought about employing an apprentice?
- UK Health Security Agency outbreak packs for education settings
- Supporting physical development in the early years
- Promoting careers in early years and childcare at local job fairs
- Early years provider business opportunity
- Kent Early Years Stronger Practice Hub newsletter - second September edition 2024
- Presentations for early years practitioners
- Early Years training
September 2024
- Issue 39/2024:
- Safeguarding focus - Lockdown processes
- Autumn term 2024 headcount submissions close this Friday
- Autumn term post headcount exceptional payment requests for eligible working families of children aged 9 months to 2 years old
- Ofsted outcomes
- October childcare job fair, Horsham - only a few stalls left
- Kent Early Years Stronger Practice Hub newsletter - September 2024
- Oral health training
- National Professional Qualification in Early Years Leadership
- Early Years training - Phonics
- Issue 38/2024:
- Updates to our phone system - possible longer call wait times
- Early Years Funded Entitlement for 2 year olds
- Starting school applications
- New public mental health needs assessment 2024
- Early Years training
- Issue 37/2024:
- Early Years and Childcare advisors corrected contact information for support
- Job centre support with recruitment
- Childcare job fair in Horsham in October - meet job seekers
- Wellbeing and exercise in pregnancy programme
- National Professional Qualification for Early Years Leadership (NPQEYL)
- Autumn early years and childcare networks
- Early Years training
- Special newsletter - Applications open for wraparound childcare programme funding
- Issue 36/2024:
- Business focus - Marketing your early years and childcare business
- Early Years Funded Entitlement autumn term actuals - now open
- Early Years Funded Entitlements for working families
- Claiming disability access fund
- Early Years Funded Entitlement leaflet for parents and carers - digital copies available
- Setting support phone line reminder
- Fire safety training
- Oral health pilot
- PACEY Childcare and Early Years awards 2024
- Early Years and Childcare 2024/2025 training and events brochure
- Special newsletter - Update on support from Early Years and Childcare advisors
August 2024
- Issue 35/2024:
- Safeguarding focus - Updated Prevent referral form
- Right from the Start: Early Years and Childcare Strategy
- Applications open for Wraparound Childcare Programme Funding
- Registering as a childminder and nanny
- Ofsted updates - returning the ID checking form to Ofsted
- Join the West Sussex Multiply Bus for a week of learning and fun
- Kent Early Years Stronger Practice Hub newsletter - August 2024
- Early Years training
- Issue 34/2024:
- Childcare Expansion Forum - joining opportunity extension
- Information for childcare providers in West Sussex - new website
- Ofsted updates - what early years providers and practitioners need to know
- Childminders - new to Ofsted inspections, what do you need to know?
- Autumn Early Years and Childcare networks
- Issue 33/2024:
- Early Years Funded Entitlement for working families - autumn term deadline
- Applying for Early Years Funded Entitlement when on parental leave
- Universal Early Years Funded Entitlement for 3 and 4 year olds - eligibility codes not required
- Do Something Big campaign - advertising vacancies
- PACEY's first childcare and early years conference
- Special newsletter - Emergency planning and response
- Issue 32/2024:
- Business focus - maintaining quality early years and childcare provision in the face of workforce challenges
- Setting support phoneline - downtime and changes to operating hours
- European Early Childhood Education Research Association conference 2024 - Brighton
- Brighton and Hove childminder conference - November 2024
- Childcare Expansion Forum - opportunity to join
- Making Every Contact Count training
- Special Newsletter - Final reminder - Early Years Funded Entitlement payment consultation closes Friday 2 August
July 2024
- Issue 31/2024:
- Safeguarding focus - Emotional abuse - childhood verbal abuse
- Reminder to have your say on Early Years Funded Entitlement payments
- Advanced warning - Online provider portal downtime
- Check Early Years Funded Entitlement codes for working families
- Childcare Expansion Forum - opportunity to join
- Free training from Kent Early Years Stronger Practice Hub
- Issue 30/2024:
- Online provider portal downtime
- Reminder to have your say on Early Years Funded Entitlement payments
- Reporting changes to your Ofsted registration
- Ofsted Early Years and Childcare Enforcement policy updates
- Ofsted News e-magazine
- Kent Early Years Stronger Practice hub newsletter - July 2024
- Issue 29/2024:
- National Wraparound Childcare Programme Update
- Letter from Sussex Police regarding FGM/C
- Early years and childcare training booking portal now live
- National Professional Qualification for Early Years Leadership
- SEND and inclusion newsletter
- Summer reading challenge
- Issue 28/2024:
- Recruitment and support - advertise your job vacancies
- Early years training moving to new platform - final reminder
- Reminder to have your say on EYFE payments
- Childcare expansion forum - opportunity to join
- Early years training
- Special newsletter - Update on support from your Early Years and Childcare Advisors
- Issue 27/2024:
- Updated safeguarding letter for parents/carers
- Early Years Funded Entitlements - parental leave
- Early Years Funded Entitlements for working families temporary codes
- Action required - checking codes for Early Years Funded Entitlements for working families
- Childcare Expansion Forum updates
- Spring term network presentations
- Early Years training moving to a new platform
- Early Years training
June 2024
- Special newsletter - Early years and childcare training moving platforms
- Issue 26/2024:
- Safeguarding focus - Water safety - always supervise children around water
- Consultation open - Early Years Funded Entitlement payments
- Heat health alerts - Yellow
- Gypsy, Roma, Traveller and Showman terminology
- Dingley's promise - Fostering meaningful inclusion in Early Years Settings
- Early Years training
- Special newsletter - Early Years funded entitlement payment consultation
- Issue 25/2024:
- Early Years funded entitlement autumn 2024 term Estimates now open
- New Early Years Funded Entitlement leaflet
- Business opportunity in Shoreham-by-Sea
- Childcare Expansion Capital Funding - expressions of interest
- Gypsy, Roma and Traveller month - June 2024
- Ethnic Minority Traveller Achievement Service resource
- Early Years training
- Issue 24/2024:
- Business focus - Changes to holiday entitlement
- Sign up arrangements regarding Early Years Funded Entitlement for 9 month olds
- Post Headcount Exceptional Payment requests for children starting between 6 May to 14 June
- Early Years Funded Entitlements for 9 month olds - key messages for parents/carers
- Childcare Expansion Capital Funding - expressions of interest
- Early Years Foundation Stage Leaders Network slides
- Masters in Early Years Education with Early Years Teacher Status
- Early Years training
- Issue 23/2024:
- Online provider portal downtime
- Early Years Funded Entitlement for 2, 3 and 4 year olds - summer term payments
- Business opportunity for Early Years Provision in Horsham
- Starting school
- Get ready for summer - Encourage families to check vaccinations are up to date
- Oral health support in Early Years
- Early Years training
May 2024
- Special newsletter - Childcare expansion capital grants - Expression of interest
- Issue 22/2024:
- Safeguarding focus - Coping with a crying baby and safer sleep resources
- Advanced warning - Online provider portal downtime
- Early Years Evidence Store expands to explore self-regulation and executive function
- Final reminder Ofsted's Big Listen consultation - for adults and children
- Kent Early Years Stronger Practice Hub newsletter - May 2024
- Early Years training
- Issue 21/2024:
- Free communication friendly spaces event - change of time
- Help for early years providers - new nutrition content
- New Ofsted blogs
- SEND and Inclusion newsletter - May 2024
- Reminder - Ofsted's Big Listen consultation
- Reminder - Early Years Foundation Stage safeguarding consultation
- National Smile Month 2024
- Early Years training
- Issue 20/2024:
- Business focus - Free business planning courses
- Online provider portal downtime
- Termly provider update
- Final reminder - Wraparound programme funding
- Reminder - Consultation on an experience-based route for Early Years practitioners
- Coping with a crying baby and safer sleep - Free webinar
- Childminding week 2024
- National numeracy day 2024
- Now module available - Effective curriculum and assessment
- Virtual school newsletter
- Early Years training
- Issue 19/2024:
- Summer term 2024 headcount submissions close this Friday
- Update on the expansion of childcare
- Contact number for FE Finance
- Advertise your job vacancies on the West Sussex County Council website
- Tools for schools website migration
- Wraparound programme funding
- Final reminder - Childminder consultation
- Consultation - Experienced based route for Early Years practitioners
- Free communication friendly spaces event
- Early Years training
- Issue 18/2024:
- Wraparound programme funding - Expression of interest
- Ofsted Big conversation
- Starting school vaccinations
- Reminder - Childminder recruitment and retention consultation
- Early Years training
April 2024
- Special newsletter - Wraparound programme funding - Expression of interest
- Issue 17/2024:
- Safeguarding focus - Unregulated medical treatment for children
- Online provider portal downtime
- Help us to help you - eligibility code queries
- Fire safety in Early Years and Childcare settings
- Transition events
- Early Years Foundation Stage consultation - Safeguarding requirements
- Early Years training
- Special newsletter - Online provider portal downtime
- Special newsletter - Relocation of Jessie Younghusband Primary SchoolÂ
- Issue 16/2024:
- Early Years Funded Entitlement Summer term actuals
- Validating 2 year old working families eligibility code
- Early Years Funded Entitlement leaflets for parents
- Claiming Disability Access Fund (DAF)
- Transition events
- Department for Education roadshow - new date
- Oral health in Early Years pilot programme
- Brilliant babies to terrific toddlers - A tool for reflection
- Early Years training
- Issue 15/2024:
- Business focus - Sign up to offer tax-free childcare
- Validating 2 year old working families codes
- Ofsted update
- Reminder - Childminder recruitment and retention consultation
- Kent Early Years Stronger Practice Hub newsletter and new supportive document for providers
- Early Years training
- Issue 14/2024:
- Safeguarding focus - Dangers of laundry capsules
- Accepting your provider declaration and estimate payments
- Validating 2 year old working families codes
- Transition events
- Pre-school immunisations
- Ofsted's Big Listen consultation - for adults and children
- Free trees for schools, nurseries and community groups
March 2024
- Issue 13/2024:
- High volume of calls and emails
- Final reminder to check Early Years Funded Entitlement codes
- Childcare Expansion Provider Forum update
- Are parents/carers in your setting confused about the new childcare offers?
- Department for Education provider roadshows - postponed
- Review of the ordinarily available inclusive practice guide
- Billingual support for Chagossian families
- Ofsted updates.
- Issue 12/2024:
- Contacting the Local Authority Designated Officer
- Warning - Online provider portal downtime
- Early Years Funded Entitlement eligibility codes - summer term deadline
- New funding policy and invoice templates available
- Childminder consultation
- Early Years training.
- Special newsletter - Early Years Funded Entitlement - Indicative Budgets 2024-25
- Issue 11/2024:
- Business focus - Funding for apprentices in your setting
- Warning - Online provider portal downtime
- Outcomes Framework for children and young people - parent/carer survey
- Department for Education Provider roadshows
- Transition events 2024
- Department for Education COVID recovery programme
- Jobcentre plus - support with recruitment
- SEND and inclusion newsletter - March 2024
- Fraud guide for businesses.
- Issue 10/2024:
- Early Years Funded Entitlement Summer 2024 term estimates now open
- Early Years Funded Entitlement for working families - reminding parents to check and reconfirm their codes
- Checking Early Years Funded Entitlement codes
- Advanced warning - Online provider portal downtime
- Network meeting presentations
- New Ofsted early years blog post - Ofsted priorities for the early years sector
- Early Years training
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- Special newsletter - Provider Declaration 2024-2025 - existing Early Years Funded Entitlement providers only
February 2024
- Special newsletter - New parent declaration form now available - existing Early Years Funded providers only
- Issue 9/2024:
- Safeguarding focus - Free county lines video and resource pack
- Early Years funded entitlement - Provider Declaration
- Online Provider Portal downtime
- Ofsted inspections - Support from the Early Years and Childcare team
- New resource to support practitioners with Early Years Foundation Stage assessment
- Kent Early Years Stronger Practice Hub newsletter - February 2024
- Early Years training.
- Issue 8/2024:
- Business focus - Changes to your Ofsted registration
- Early Years funded entitlement - Spring term payments
- Do you know someone who deserves an honour?
- Ofsted curriculum roadshows in West Sussex
- Foundation years live - March events
- Webinars on personal, social and emotional development and maths mastery
- Early Years training.
- Special newsletter - Clarification on level 3 qualifications and offering Early Years Funded Entitlements (EYFE)
- Issue 7/2024:
- Statement from the Department for Education on charging
- Level 3 qualifications and offering Early Years funded entitlements
- Early Years Funded entitlement eligibility checker updated
- Notice of planned downtime
- Early Years Foundation Stage Leaders Network slides
- Final chance for free training and support
- Early Years Conference - Embracing Inclusivity
- SEND and Inclusion newsletter
- Early Years training.
- Issue 6/2024:
- 2 year old funding
- Letter from Department of Education to Early Years and Childcare providers
- Early Years and Childcare newsletter web page
- Jobcentre Plus - support with recruitment
- West Sussex Health Visiting and School Nursing services survey
- Early Years in Mind new guide on self-regulation
- Early Years in Mind survey
- Newsletter from Early Years Stronger Practice Hub
- Learning and Development Gateway - new payment system live
- Webinars from WORTH services
- Early Years training.
January 2024
- Issue 5/2024:
- Safeguarding focus - NSPCC case reviews on parental substance use
- Warning - Online Provider Portal downtime
- Final call - Expansion of childcare offers survey
- National Early Years recruitment campaign
- Increase in measles cases in Europe
- Transition for children starting school in September 2024
- How parents apply for eligibility codes
- Early Years provider emails hacked
- Early Years in Mind
- Early Years in Mind speech and language webinar recording
- Cancellations and substitutions - Early Years training
- Early Years training.
- Special Newsletter - Online Provider Portal downtime
- Issue 4/2024:
- Online Provider Portal downtime
- Free Entitlement funding rates 2024-25
- Termly childcare provider form
- Funding support for medical training
- Update to Early Years inspection handbook
- Funding support for medical training
- Learning and Development Gateway payment update
- Childcare Expansion Forum update
- Follow the Family Information Service Facebook
- Department for Education experts and mentors programme.
- Special Newsletter - Free Entitlement funding rates 2024-25
- Issue 3/2024:
- New 2 year old Free Entitlement for working families - issues when applying
- Advanced notice of planned downtime
- Expansion of childcare funding offers update - Schools forum and proposed funding rates
- New parent declaration form - coming soon
- Early Years Foundation Stage Leaders Networks
- Early Years Professional Development Programme - closing soon
- The Big Ambition - Early Years responses needed
- How to use research evidence in practice
- Early Years training.
- Issue 2/2024:
- Expansion of childcare offers survey
- Expansion of childcare funding offers update - proposed funding formula and Free Entitlement rates
- Starting school applications - five days to go
- Transition events
- Wellbeing webinar for practitioners
- Free professional development course for Early Years leaders
- Early Years training.
- Issue 1/2024:
- Mandatory Early Years census and Free Entitlement Spring term actuals
- Expansion of childcare funding offers update
- Understanding changes to the EYFS
- Starting school applications - 12 days to go
- Updated guidance - working together to safeguard children
- Admission arrangements consultation
- Bilingual support with school applications
- Best start in life part two
- Early years training.
December 2023
- Number 297:
- Safeguarding focus
- New Early Years Foundation Stage statutory documents published
- Speech and language support in the Early Years
- Free Early Years Special Educational Needs and Disabilities training
- SEND and Inclusion newsletter
- Free workshops - cost of living support for children and families
- Prevent duty guidance updated
- Updates to GOV.UK login for training
- Early Years training.
- Number 296:
- Advanced notice - mandatory Early Years census 2024
- Coping with crying and safe sleep for babies training
- Ofsted curriculum roadshows in West Sussex
- Final reminder - the Big Ambition survey
- Stronger Practice Hub new website
- New Foundation Years blog post - national professional qualification in Early Years leadership
- Network meeting presentations
- Ofsted FAQ videos
- Early Years training - e-learning modules available.
- Special newsletter: Online Provider Portal downtime
- Number 295:
- Warning - Online Provider Portal downtime
- Final reminder - childcare expansion forum invitation
- Early Years Alliance - webinar on childcare expansion
- Provider survey - childcare expansion
- Childminder agencies - changes to guidance
- Updated - childminder start-up grants
- Updated Ofsted guidance - checks on household members and visitors
- New mental health support resources for babies and children
- Early Years training.
- Last updated:
- 4 December 2024