Thousands of schools are planning to use the Baseline to assess Reception children in their first few weeks at school, despite it no longer being used as an accountability measure by the Government.
Schools will be funded by the Department for Education to use the Baseline in the 2016-17 academic year if they want to.
However, without the publication of a revised Early Years Foundation Stage, the EYFS Profile at the end of Reception remains the statutory assessment for children in the early years.
Before axing the Baseline, the Government had intended to make the Profile voluntary for schools after this year.
Meanwhile, the DfE has confirmed that it will be announcing further details on the way forward ‘in due course’.
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