Nursery World - EYFS review will stick to the core

The 2010 review of the Early Years Foundation Stage will not move away from the 'core pillars' of the EYFS, said Claudine Menashe-Jones, deputy director, Quality and Standards Division of the DCSF.

Speaking at Nursery World's conference, 'EYFS One Year On', last week, Ms Menashe-Jones said the review would start in September and would be carried out by an independent body. It would focus on whether the EYFS was driving up quality and on the practical experiences of practitioners implementing the framework.

However, there would be no change to the tenet of having a single framework, to the child-centred, play-based approach, or to the four principles of the EYFS.

Meanwhile, as Nursery World went to press, shadow schools spokesman Nick Gibb said the Tories would review the EYFS, which he described as 'a bureaucratic nightmare'. The Guardian reported that he told a fringe debate at the Conservative conference in Manchester, 'We have to trust our professionals, not have these forms asking whether a child can tie its shoelaces or hold a rattle.'

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