Securing the Best Start to Life
The Guide to Early Childhood Degrees
There are many routes into and career opportunities surrounding early childhood. It is not always straightforward, which is why Early Years Educator and Nursery World have partnered with the Early Childhood Studies Degrees Network to bring you the Guide to Early Childhood Degrees.
The guide has been put together by members of the ECSDN to give a detailed overview of the opportunities which are available around the study of early childhood.
Please find the guide here.
Domestic Abuse Training for DSLs NEW for 2022
Learn more about the domestic abuse and how you can support the children and families you work with who may be at risk.
This three-part training delivered in half a day offers practitioners the time to consider how to recognise and respond to domestic abuse.
With 1 in 5 children being exposed to domestic abuse, this training offers Designated Safeguarding Leads the additional skills to see the different ways children and families experience abuse.
Informed by the new Domestic Abuse Act 2021, the training focuses on many aspects including coercive and controlling behaviour and how to support and engage with children and families.
- DA1 Monday 9th May 2022 12:30-16:30 £40 Virtual via Microsoft Teams
- DA2 Tuesday 24th May 2022 12:30-16:30 £40 Virtual via Microsoft Teams
- DA3 Thursday 9th June 2022 9:00-13:00 £40 Virtual via Microsoft Teams
- DA4 Saturday 18th June 2022 9:00-13:00 £40 Virtual via Microsoft Teams
- DA5 Tuesday 5th July 2022 9:00-13:00 £40 Virtual via Microsoft Teams
To book click on the link: https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx...
Button battery safety campaign by Child Accident Prevention Trust
Child Accident Prevention Trust are launching a UK-wide campaign on button battery safety and, thanks to generous support from the Office for Product Safety and Standards, they're delighted to offer free resources to help you spread the word.
Find out more and order resources here.
Exclusion table
This guidance refers to public health exclusions to indicate the time period an individual should not attend a setting to reduce the risk of transmission during the infectious stage.
This is different to ‘exclusion’ as used in an educational sense.
How do families arriving from Ukraine apply for a school place and childcare?
All school age children and young people arriving in England from Ukraine via the family route or sponsorship route have the right to access education and childcare.
Here is how families can apply for school and childcare places.
This article is available in both English and Ukrainian
Support for multilingual families at home: Time together booklet
National Literacy Trust have added Ukrainian to the 22 languages their Time Together booklet can be accessed in.
This booklet is a colourful and easy-to-read guide ideal to share with families and full of suggestions for supporting children's learning at home.
Find all resources here.
Learn - Explore - Debate
NCB recently worked with the Department for Education (DfE) to deliver the latest round of our Learn - Explore - Debate events. Unlike previous events, these were held specifically for school-based early years practitioners in England.
Over 450 school-based early years practitioners, as well as representatives from local authorities, signed up, over three days, to hear from the DfE and Ofsted and to connect with their colleagues from across the country. These events were planned with feedback from the Foundation Years community at the forefront of our thinking, and they focused on the Early Years Education Recovery Programme, assessment under the Early Years Foundation Stage Profile and Ofsted inspections under the revised framework.
The first session focused on COVID-19 recovery and the EYFS reforms, including presentations from the DfE, a Q&A session and a case study from Whiteknights School in Reading.
Please note, you can find the EYFS profile exemplification videos and information note mentioned by the DfE in their presentations here.
Increase in hepatitis (liver inflammation) cases in children under investigation
Regular UKHSA updates on the ongoing investigation into higher than usual rates of liver inflammation (hepatitis) in children across the UK.
UKHSA, working with Public Health Scotland, Public Health Wales and the Public Health Agency, are continuing to investigate the cases in children aged 10 and under that have occurred since January 2022. The usual viruses that cause infectious hepatitis (hepatitis A to E) have not been detected.
The cases are predominantly in children under 5 years old who showed initial symptoms of gastroenteritis illness (diarrhoea and nausea) followed by the onset of jaundice.
Read more here.
The West Midlands Ofsted Big Conversation
The West Midlands Ofsted Big Conversation is holding a Virtual Open Meeting for all providers on Tuesday 10th May 2022 from 6.30-8.30pm. This provides everyone with an opportunity to hear the latest news from Ofsted and to ask Open Questions of them, either beforehand or at the event itself.
They have also been able to secure Kate Moxley to talk to about how the sector can be fully inclusive with their wellbeing approaches. You can book direct through Eventbrite.
You will then get all the information about submitting questions and to join on the evening.
The cost is £7 per person.
https://theofstedbigconversation.co.uk/