Newsletters for Early Years and Childcare providers

July 2025

Issue 29/2025:
- Safeguarding Focus - Safeguarding self-assessment tool and keeping babies safe resources
- Have your say on the future of local government in West Sussex
- Family Hub availability over the summer holidays
- Childcare Choices - digital leaflet available
- Kent and Beyond Early Years Stronger Practice Hub Newsletter
Issue 28/2025:
- Revised Early Years Foundation Stage statutory framework
- Ofsted renewed inspection framework webinars
- Early Years Foundation Stage safeguarding and welfare requirement changes
- Leading Excellence in Early Years: Quality First Teaching
- Vaccinated children should not be excluded from settings
- Paying for childcare – new resource to share with parents
- Childcare Choices provider updates
- Funded level 3 qualification opportunity
- Early Years Education with Early Years Teacher Status MA - additional funded places available
- Early Years Training
Issue 27/2025:
- Workforce Focus
- Help us gather feedback on the Impact of Early Years Funded Entitlement
- Children starting school
- SEND and Inclusion newsletter
- Grow, Learn and Flourish West Sussex Teaching School Hub end of year review
- Early Years Training; Summer Reading Challenge - coming to a library near you
Issue 26/2025:
- Business Focus - Limiting place capacity
- Early Years Funded Entitlement - autumn term 2025 estimates now open
- Post Headcount Exceptional Payment forms for 9 months plus funding claims
- Department for Education consultation on floor space requirements - closing soon
- Celebrating success of our early years superheroes -Toybox Day Nursery
- Kent & Beyond Early Years Stronger Practice Hub newsletter
- Early Years Training

June 2025

Special newsletter - Early Years Funding updates
Issue 24/2025:
- Warning - Online Provider Portal downtime
- Right From the Start
- West Sussex Early Years and Childcare Strategy update
- New resources to share with parents
- Boost your skills - visit our training and qualifications web pages
- Early Years training
Issue 23/2025:
- Business Focus - Workplace recycling - are you compliant?
- Summer term Post Headcount Exceptional Payment for eligible working families of children aged 9 months to 2 years old - no exceptional reason needed
- Advanced warning - Online Provider Portal downtime
- Changes to Online Provider Portal login screen
- Department for Education consultation - floor space requirements for children
- Free Open University early years resources
- Kent and Beyond Early Years Stronger Practice Hub
- Early Years training
Issue 22/2025:
- Early Help Focus - Early Help community outreach engagement
- Warning - Online Provider Portal downtime
- Wraparound Childcare Programme Funding and wraparound webinar
- Working together to safeguard children - update
- Check an early years qualification service - available now
- New Early Education and Childcare Coalition survey
- Free paediatric first aid training
- Free nutrition webinars
- Education Endowment Fund (EEF) opportunities
- Early Years training

May 2025

Issue 21/2025:

Safeguarding Focus - Pan Sussex half day conference -
Understanding safeguarding children in a digital age
Advanced warning - Online Provider Portal downtime
Summer term Post Headcount Exceptional Payment (PHEP) flexibility for eligible working families of children aged 9 months to 2 years old
Updating your staff contact information
New Department for Education (DfE) newsletter for early years providers
Anti-Racist Education Conference
Allergy support for schools and early years providers
New Ofsted blog post
Early Years training - funding for one free paediatric first aid training per setting

Issue 20/2025:

Impact of childcare expansion survey
Jobs in Early Years and Childcare newsletter
Children, Young People and Learning SEND and Inclusion newsletter
West Sussex Safeguarding Children Partnership - free training
Fire Safety training
Early Years training

Issue 19/2025:

Business Focus - explore our business support web pages for settings
Summer term Early Years Funded Entitlement actuals - deadline this Friday
Right From The Start Early Years survey
Childminding week
Early Years Funded Entitlements for Working Families - 30 hours applications open now
New Ofsted research report
Wraparound settings - inclusive provision
Fully funded Early Years SENCO training - apply now
Department for Education launches new consultation on floor space requirements
Early Years training

Issue 18/2025:

Summer term 2025 actuals claims - action required
Early Years Funded Entitlement for Working Families codes - new online request for support form
Termly provider update
Childcare Expansion Capital Grant funding - deadline approaching
Early Language Support for Every Child - free event
National Wraparound Childcare Programme Grant Funding
National Professional Qualification Autumn 2025 update
West Sussex Safeguarding Children Partnership - free training
Grant/funding opportunity
Early Years training

April 2025

Issue 17/2025:
- New nutrition guidance from the Department for Education
- World Hand Hygiene Day 2025
- Dadpad - New app launch event; Reminder to sign up to Operation Encompass
- Help parents save money on childcare costs; Early Years training
Issue 16/2025:
- Safeguarding Focus - Use of socket covers
- Final reminder - Ofsted consultation on inspections
- Spring term 2025 actuals claims - actioned required
- Chronology training - Train the Trainer
- Early Years training
Issue 15/2025:
- Starting school places
- Help us shape early years services - deadline approaching
- Early Years Funded Entitlement for Working Families codes - new online request for support request
- Improved way to submit Disability Access Fund evidence
- New Local Authority Designated Officer portal for referrals
- New Ofsted blog post
- Early Years training
Special newsletter: Early Years Expansion Grant
Issue 14/2025:

Business Focus - Updated Childcare Sufficiency Assessment
Ofsted consultation on inspections - have you had your say?
Are you prepared for the new climate change requirements?
Free safeguarding training
Early Years training

Issue 13/2025:

Childcare Expansion capital grant funding - applications open for further projects
Specialist Advisory Teachers for Early Years SEND Transition
Department for Education's invitation to the South-East region
Roadshow in Brighton
Operation Encompass update
Help us shape Early Years services
Free toilet training posters and handouts
Early Years training

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

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