Early Years Provider Updates | COVID-19 Edition 111

This article has been brought to you by Slough Borough Council's Associate Director for Children and Families, Michael Jarrett, for the attention of the Early Years leads.

This week’s news bulletin from Children and Families, Early Years Division at Slough Borough Council is now available please see the attached document dated 30th June 2021.

Department of Education:

• Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) Statutory Framework

• Coronavirus (COVID-19) local restrictions in education and childcare settings

• All educational settings – summer and autumn testing arrangements

• Confirmatory polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test after a positive lateral flow device (LFD) test

• Confirm your summer school plans to secure your funding

• Disapplication notice: school inspections legislation changes

• Reported Coronavirus (COVID-19) notifications by registered Early Years and childcare settings

• Attendance in education and Early Years settings during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak

• Department for Education COVID-19 helpline

• Department for Education Guidance

•  Pupil Premium

•  Update on the educational setting status form

OFSTED

• Ofsted: Coronavirus rolling update

• Early Years Inspection handbook; summary of changes and link to handbook

• Become a childminder agency forms

• Childminder agencies: registration and suitability

Early Years Team

• Early Years inclusion grant survey

• Virtual School

Update for Parents

• The disabled living collective

• Button Battery Safety

• Frimley CCG Parent/Carer survey

• Healthier Together

News and Events

• Ofsted blog: The early years sector: a changing picture