Details of three-year initiative to support best practice across early years settings and primary schools announced The post Grants of up to £50k on offer for new ‘early education partnerships’ first appeared on Schools…

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DfE News Stories·policy

Transparency data: Privacy information: early years foundation stage to key stage 3

Details of the personal data the Department for Education (DfE) processes for learners from the early years foundation stage to key stage 3.

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Teacher Tapp Blog·higher-ed

AI sceptics, visualisers, plus teachers teaching sons or daughters…

Hey there Tappers! The last half term of the year is now fully underway. Here at Tapp we have some exciting news about a special giveaway AND lots of juicy edu-data. Let’s get started! New prize draw Here at Teacher…

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Department for Education

Guidance: Early education partnerships funding

Guidance for early years providers and state-funded primary schools in England applying for the early education partnerships funding opportunity.

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Department for Education

Guidance: Early years qualifications list: UK only

UK qualifications that meet Department for Education (DfE) criteria for counting in the early years foundation stage statutory framework staff:child ratios.

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DfE Education Hub·policy

Experts at Hand: Everything you need to know

We're making it easier for children to get specialist support in schools, early years and post-16 settings. A new offer called Experts at Hand will bring specialists into schools, early years and post-16 education…

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Department for Education·research

Research: Evidence of early years providers’ finances from a 2025 survey

Evidence of providers’ finances from the 2025 survey of childcare and early years providers.

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Department for Education

Early years foundation stage profile assessment support

Early years foundation stage (EYFS) profile assessment support for school leaders and practitioners.

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Ofsted·policy

Contracted Ofsted inspectors for early years childcare and social care

Find out if you have the qualifications and experience to contract as an Ofsted inspector for childminders, day care and other childcare providers.

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Wonkhe Wonk Corner·policy

While Bridget Phillipson is in a letter writing mood…

Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson has referred the early years childcare market to the Competition and Markets Authority, asking it to examine hidden charges that are undermining the government's funded hours offer.

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The Guardian Education·policy

Nurseries in England charging extra fees to cover funding gap, campaigners say

Head of Early Years Alliance says additional charges paid by parents represent ‘cross-subsidy’ Parents of nursery children in England are being charged extra fees to cover for government underfunding of free childcare…

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LSE Business Review·policy

Is big tech facing its big tobacco moment?

Fines placed on social media firms for harming customers are increasing. But they are not yet large enough to change behaviour. Rukaiyat Adebusola Yusuf compares tech to tobacco and argues that if litigation, regulation…

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NI Department of Education·policy

DE FOI/2026-039

DE FOI/2026-039 Date published: 19 May 2026 maidments Tue, 19/05/2026 - 12:01 Number of children with SEN recorded in Pre School education and funded early year provision File DE 2026 039 SEN children at pre school…

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IOE London Blog

Childminding Week: recognising a vital but under-pressure part of the early years system

19 May 2026 By Lynn Ang and Antonia Simon Coram Pacey’s Childminding Week provided an important opportunity to celebrate the contribution of childminders to children, families and communities across the UK, but also to…

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Department for Education

Guidance: Early years initial teacher training (ITT) providers

List of early years initial teacher training (ITT) providers.

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DfE Teaching Blog·policy

What early language intervention taught me

Sallie Wood I am an Early Years Reception Teaching Assistant at Henleaze Infants School in Bristol. I've been delivering Nuffield Early Language Intervention (NELI) programme at Henleaze Infants School since September…

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Children's Commissioner England·policy

Press Notice: Morning after local elections, Children’s Commissioner’s new polling shows teenagers uncertain about voting in the next general election and worried about the future, as she launched major national survey

With plans to lower the voting age to 16, Children’s Commissioner’s polling shows widespread disengagement, low confidence and uncertainty about political participation among young people Commissioner’s new data on…

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The PIE News·higher-ed

Who’s in the room? Inside the new Education Sector Action Group

At The PIE Live Europe 2026 in March, Sir Steve Smith revealed the Home Office and Cabinet Office will be members of ESAG, the ministerially led committee that will formulate action plans to deliver the UK’s…

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FFT Education Datalab·research

What genetics can (and can’t) tell us about educational inequality

Discussions of educational inequality usually focus on family income, school quality and neighbourhoods. Much less attention is paid to genetics, often because the topic feels complex and uncomfortable. Yet recent…

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Modern Apprentice - Early Years

Education news for this role

Official Statistics: Childcare and early years survey of parents: 2025

Grants of up to £50k on offer for new ‘early education partnerships’

Transparency data: Privacy information: early years foundation stage to key stage 3

AI sceptics, visualisers, plus teachers teaching sons or daughters…

Guidance: Early education partnerships funding

Guidance: Early years qualifications list: UK only

Experts at Hand: Everything you need to know

Research: Evidence of early years providers’ finances from a 2025 survey

Early years foundation stage profile assessment support

Contracted Ofsted inspectors for early years childcare and social care

While Bridget Phillipson is in a letter writing mood…

Nurseries in England charging extra fees to cover funding gap, campaigners say

Is big tech facing its big tobacco moment?

DE FOI/2026-039

Childminding Week: recognising a vital but under-pressure part of the early years system

Guidance: Early years initial teacher training (ITT) providers

What early language intervention taught me

Press Notice: Morning after local elections, Children’s Commissioner’s new polling shows teenagers uncertain about voting in the next general election and worried about the future, as she launched major national survey

Who’s in the room? Inside the new Education Sector Action Group

What genetics can (and can’t) tell us about educational inequality

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