Nursery World - Campaigners slam reception baseline plans

Early years organisations and teaching unions have welcomed plans to keep the EYFS Profile, but say they are disappointed about proposals to introduce a new baseline assessment, which would also take place in Reception.

Last year, the Government was forced to scrap a reception baseline due to lack of comparability between the approved schemes.

Wide-ranging proposals to change primary assessment from Reception to the end of primary school have been put out for consultation by the Department for Education today.

In October the education secretary announced that the Profile would remain in place for the 2017-18 academic year, while long-term assessment arrangements were considered.

The primary assessment consultation reinforces this further, stating the Government’s intention to keep the Early Years Foundation Stage Profile, which is carried out at the end of children’s Reception year.

‘We know that the EYFSP is a well-established, valued and respected assessment, which is why it will remain a statutory assessment for future years,’ it says.

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