Newsletters for Early Years and Childcare providers

An archive of the newsletters for Early Years and Childcare providers.

The newsletters below are listed in chronological order (newest to oldest) by calendar year.

Early years and childcare newsletter

  • March 2025

    • Issue 12/2025:
      • Deadline approaching - Early Years Funded Entitlement - Summer term 2025 estimates
      • Deadline approaching - Early Years Funded Entitlement for Working Families - Summer term 2025 code
      • The Department for Education frequently asked questions guidance about charging
      • Ofsted Education Inspection Framework and the Early Years Foundation Stage statutory framework
      • Early years qualifications - new check service
      • New Ofsted webinar
      • Transition events
      • BBC Tiny Happy People survey
      • Early Years training
    • Special Newsletter - Provider Declaration forms for 2025 to 2026
    • Issue 11/2025:
      • Safeguarding Focus - Safer recruitment for staff from overseas and those who have lived abroad
      • Recording attendance of children and visitors
      • Reminder - Provider Declaration 2025 to 2026
      • New resource to support setting's Early Years Pupil Premium spending
      • Reminder - Operation Encompass briefings
      • World Oral Health Day - new resources to download and share
      • 'Little Moments Together' campaign
      • Pelvic floor exercises for new parents
    • Issue 10/2025:
      • Early Years Funded Entitlement - Summer 2025 term estimates now open
      • Operation Encompass information
      • New careers in early years and childcare website
      • Ordinarily Available Inclusive Practice copies posted to you
      • National Professional Qualification in Early Years Leadership
      • SEND and Inclusion Newsletter - Spring 2025
      • Early Years training
    • Special Newsletter - Indicative Budget report 2025 to 2026
    • Issue 9/2025:
      • Business Focus - Paying employer National Insurance contributions for apprentices
      • Provider Declaration for 2025 to 2026 - number of funded weeks in spring and summer terms 2026
      • Information on supporting special education needs and disabilities
      • Early years and childcare workforce review - deadline extended
      • Confused about staff-to-child ratios?
      • Workplace recycling changes from 31 March 2025 - early years and childcare providers impacted
      • New website - Careers in early years and childcare, 1 week to go
      • Webinar for early years providers: improving the way Ofsted inspects education
      • Changes to apprenticeship expectations for adult learners
      • Early Years training
    • Special Newsletter - Early Years Funded Entitlement 2025 to 2026 updates

     

  • February 2025

    • Special Newsletter - Online Provider Portal downtime extended
    • Issue 8/2025:
      • Final reminder - Online Provider Portal downtime
      • Wraparound Childcare Funding Grant
      • Early Years Funded Entitlements spring term payments
      • Champions of childhood: Celebrating early years heroes conference 2025 - spaces are limited
      • Coming soon - careers in early years and childcare website and Jobs in early years and childcare newsletter
      • Childcare Works Wraparound and Early Years Provider Toolkit
      • Supporting regular activity and exercise before and after pregnancy
      • Kent Early Years Stronger Practice Hub newsletter
      • Early Years Training
    • Special Newsletter - Updated early education and childcare statutory guidance
    • Issue 7/2025:
      • Safeguarding Focus: Updated safeguarding letter for parents and carers
      • Advanced warning - Online Provider Portal downtime
      • Changes to the setting support phone line
      • Early Years Funded Entitlement - Indicative Budget report
      • When do you need to notify Ofsted?
      • Champions of childhood: Celebrating early years heroes conference 2025 - meet our workshop leader
      • Specialist Advisory Teachers for Early Years SEND Transition (EYSAT’S)
      • Fire Safety Training
      • Early Years Training
    • Issue 6/2025:
      • Early Help Focus - Early Help service special educational needs and disabilities events
      • Childcare Expansion Capital Grant funding - deadline approaching
      • Business opportunity in Walberton - reminder
      • Wraparound Childcare Funding Grant
      • New Early Years Funded Entitlement web pages for parents/carers
      • Early years and childcare workforce review - have your say
      • Champions of childhood: Celebrating early years heroes conference 2025
      • National Professional Qualifications information
      • New toilet training guidance
      • Network presentations
      • Early Years Training
    • Issue 5/2025:
      • Business Focus - Childcare Expansion Myth-buster
      • Ofsted inspections - consultation launched
      • New information for early years and childcare providers website - now available
      • Recognise your apprentice by nominating them for our Exceptional Early Years Apprentice Award
      • Right from the Start: West Sussex Early Years and Childcare Strategy – we need you!
      • Introducing the new experience-based route for practitioners to count in ratio at level 3
      • Deadline for Childminder Start-up Grant applications – reminder
      • Early Years and Childcare Workforce Survey
      • Champions of childhood: celebrating early years heroes conference 2025 - meet our workshop leader
      • Early Years Training

  • January 2025

    • Issue 4/2025:
      • Safeguarding Focus: Let’s Talk PANTS with Pantosaurus!
      • New website for early years and childcare providers - final reminder
      • Champions of childhood: celebrating early years heroes conference 2025 - introducing our keynote speaker
      • Autumn Early Years and Childcare networks
      • Sustainability and climate change strategy for education
      • Resources available to help you at your setting
    • Issue 3/2025:
      • Business Focus: National Apprenticeship Week - nominate your apprentice for an Exceptional Early Years Apprentice Award
      • Early Years Conference 2025 - book soon to avoid disappointment
      • Training required for settings with children aged under 2 years
      • Termly Provider Update; New website for early years and childcare providers - advance notice
      • Childcare Works launches Early Years Provider Toolkit
      • Department for Education (DfE) Early Years Provider Roadshows for 2025
      • National Professional Qualification for Early Years Leadership (NPQEYL); Early Years Training
    • Special Newsletter - Early Years Funded Entitlement rates 2025 to 2026
    • Issue 2/2025:
      • Starting school applications - deadline today
      • Spring term Early Years Funded Entitlement headcount and Early Years Census 2025 - deadline approaching
      • Early Years Funded Entitlement for Working Families - code issues resolved
      • Transition events 2025
      • Ofsted Early Years (EY) workshop for professionals
      • Wellbeing and Exercise in Pregnancy Programme - pregnancy and postnatal exercise
      • Free online festival for families
      • Race Equality Week 2025
      • Early Years Training
    • Special Newsletter - New information gathering form for SEND Under 5's and Education, Health, and Care Needs Assessment
    • Special Newsletter - Early Years Funded Entitlement for Working Families - code issues
    • Issue 1/2025:
      • Cold health alert extended into the weekend for the South East
      • Mandatory Early Years Census 2025 and spring term Actuals – action required
      • Childcare Expansion Capital Grant Funding - deadline approaching
      • Wraparound Childcare Funding Grant - spring term 2025
      • Annual Admissions Consultation 2026 to 2027
      • Business opportunity in Walberton
      • Better Health Start for Life - Top Tips for Teeth
      • Maths Champions – professional development programme
      • Early Years Training

  • December 2024

    • Special newsletter - Consultation on Early Years Funded Entitlement (EYFE) payment schedules - results of the Stage Two survey

    • Issue 51/2024:
      • Safeguarding focus: Making a referral to WORTH services; photographing and filming children
      • West Sussex Early Years and Childcare Conference 2025: Champions of Childhood - Celebrating Early Years heroes
      • Starting school applications - one month to go
      • The Virtual School support groups
      • The Wellbeing and Exercise in Pregnancy Programme - the benefits of yoga
      • Fire safety training for early years and childcare providers
      • Mental health first aid (adult) training
    • Issue 50/2024 Online Provider Portal downtime:
      • Early Years Funded Entitlement spring term estimate payments
      • Early Years Funded Entitlement for Working Families - spring term code deadline
      • Advance notice - mandatory Early Years Census 2025
      • Final reminder - checking working families eligibility codes webinar
      • Inclusion Funding - online information updated and availability for 9 months plus
      • Childcare Expansion Capital Grant Funding - applications open for further projects
      • Presentations from INCO/SENCO Networks
      • Bookstart packs - deliveries starting early 2025
    • Special newsletter: Funding rates and timeline of events
    • Issue 49/2024:
      • Changes to information gathering for SEND Under 5's and Education, Health and Care Needs Assessment
      • Advanced warning - Online Provider Portal downtime
      • Emergency closure planning and response for settings
      • Wraparound childcare funding - last week to apply
      • Final reminder - Have your say in the Early Years Funded Entitlement (EYFE) Payment Consultation - Stage Two mandatory survey for EYFE providers
      • Norovirus symptoms and how to prevent the spread of infection
      • SEND and Inclusion newsletter - November 2024
      • Safer sleep for babies and coping with a crying baby
      • Early Years training

Early years funding newsletter

  • Spring 25

    • Consultation on Early Years Funded Entitlement payment schedules – update
    • Mandatory Early Years Census 2025 - action required
    • Spring term 2025 actuals claims - action required
    • Working Families eligibility codes
    • Parent Declaration forms
    • Early Years Pupil Premium
    • Claiming Disability Access Fund
    • Help us to answer your queries more efficiently

  • Autumn 2024

    • Consultation on Early Years Funded Entitlement payment schedules – update
    • Autumn term 2024 Actuals claims - now open
    • Working Family eligibility codes
    • Parent declaration forms
    • Early Years Pupil Premium
    • 2 year old Local Authority Issued Early Years Funded Entitlements - checking eligibility
    • Claiming Disability Access Fund
    • Help us to answer your queries more efficiently
    • Autumn term Post Headcount Exceptional Payment requests for eligible working families of children aged 9 months to 2 years old
    • Viewing your payment details on the online provider portal

Out of school newsletter

  • March 2025

    • 2/2025
      • National Wraparound Childcare Programme Grant Funding - deadline extended
      • Inclusive practice in wraparound provision
      • Wraparound Childcare Toolkit

  • January 2025

    • 1/2025
      • Childcare Expansion Capital Grant Funding – applications open for further projects
      • Wraparound Childcare Funding Grant - spring term 2025
      • Childcare Works provider toolkit launch
      • West Sussex Early Years and Childcare Conference 2025
      • Champions of Childhood – Celebrating Early Years Heroes
      • Early Years Training
    • 6/2024
      • National Wraparound Childcare Programme
      • Early years and childcare expansion - Funding timeline of events
      • e-Bug programme online focus group
      • Wraparound training