format after consultation with the sector revealed that many practitioners found the document's layout difficult to understand and the accompanying guidance confusing.
The Government's response to the consultation on the Early Years Foundation Stage, published today, highlights concerns about its 'language, length and layout'. More than one third (34 per cent) of respondents to the EYFS consultation found the statutory requirements, guidance and good practice were unclear.
In an exclusive interview with Nursery World, children's minister Beverly Hughes, said, 'We're certainly going to change the format. One of the difficulties we had in the consultation was just to put everything in one place so we could issue one clear document that had everything in it. But we realised even as we did that, that it wasn't the most helpful format, either to make it clear to providers and others what has got to be implemented, and secondly as a working document for people on a day-to-day basis.'
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