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Revised EYFS: a guide to the changes

The Department for Education has released the new version of the Early Years Foundation Stage, which will be effective from September 2014.

Main amendments are to the Safeguarding and Welfare Requirements, with the requirements for several policies removed. The learning and development aspects are largely unchanged, however.

 Here is our summary of the new EYFS.

General

Learning and development requirements

 

Assessment

 

Safeguarding and Welfare Requirements

 

Staff qualifications, training, support and skills

 

Staff: child ratios

 

Before/after school care and holiday provision

A new paragraph spells out the loosening of regulation for these providers in terms of ratios, qualifications and learning and development – ‘sufficient staff as for a class of 30 children’; ‘for providers to determine how many staff are needed… and to determine what qualfications, if any, the manager and/or staff should have.’

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