Early Years Provider Updates | COVID-19 Edition 125

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 20th October 2021.

Please ensure that you check TheLink and your email for future updates as this will be the last newsletter. TheLink is updated weekly and an email is sent with the latest information.

The Early Years team will continue to send out information; if you have a preferred email that you would like us to add so that you do not miss any information please let us know.

DfE

• Increased daily lateral flow device (LFD) testing for schools and further education providers

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

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

EYFS

• Check Early Years qualifications

Childminders

• Consented addresses for childminders and domestic childcare

Early Years publications - update from Ofsted

Training

• Resilience and wellbeing interactive workshop for education staff

In the News

• Coronavirus: children and young people’s mental health

• Family support

PACEY

• Department for Education ‘Frequently Asked Questions’

• Contacting tracing and the NHS Test and Trace self-isolation hub

• Contingency Framework update

A Better Start

• Trauma-informed practice – learning from A Better Start

• Celebrating World Breastfeeding Week

• Innovation and Evaluation: Keeping the end goal in mind

• Eureka! Supporting bright ideas from the community

• Supporting our families means understanding the inequalities they face

• A Better Start – tackling communication and language vulnerabilities

Some useful links/reading

• EYFS Framework Safeguarding & Welfare Checklist

• Firework Safety | Home | Child Accident Prevention Trust (capt.org.uk)

• Allergen labelling changes for prepacked for direct sale (PPDS) food | Food Standards Agency and Prepacked for direct sale (PPDS) allergen labelling changes for schools, colleges and nurseries | Food Standards Agency

• Utilising Structured Play to Enhance Children's Cognitive Development | Early Years Resources

Parents and Carers

• Baby Buddy is an award-winning free app guiding parents, parents-to-be and caregivers through pregnancy and the first months of their baby’s life.