Newsletters for Early Years and Childcare providers

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

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