General information for childcare providers

What's new 

• Out now: The Revised Early Years Foundation Stage: Principles into Practice.  Julian Grenier led on the revision of Development Matters for the Department for Education. He has independently written guidance to support practitioners, teachers and settings in understanding and implementing the updated Development Matters.
• The updated Early Years Statutory Framework should be used by schools participating in the EYFS reforms early adopter year from September 2020 to August 2021. Those who are not early adopters may find some elements of the updated document useful in 2020/21 but they will still need to follow the existing Statutory Framework
• Find out more about the new Development Matters document and watch the vodcast with the Department for Education and Dr Julian Grenier who answer your questions on the new document.
• Early Start Referral form (MS Word 83KB)
• Early start menu of offer (PDF, 396KB)
• early years Children and Young People's Out of Hours Advice Line

 Key documents

• Statutory framework for the early years foundation stage - EYFS 2017 (PDF, 555KB)
• Local Authority categorisation of childcare settings (PDF, 361KB)
• Ofsted documents
• Safeguarding and welfare requirements
• SEN and Disability in the Early Years Toolkit

Parenting Journey

• What is the Cheshire East Parenting Journey?
• Parenting Journey - facebook promotional poster (PDF, 1.1MB)
• CATCH is a free health app aimed at parents and carers of children aged 0 to 5 who live in Cheshire East