January 2024: The latest early years sector news
National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA)
Brighter thinking for early years / Meddwl disglair ar gyfer y blynyddoedd cynnar
England: Parents with late codes for two-year-old places
Step-by-step guidance for providers and parents
You may have seen that earlier this month the DfE put in a temporary system to support parents who won’t get their reconfirmation code until after 15 February. This may be too late for some settings to be able to offer them a place from April. NDNA raised this with the DfE who will send these parents a temporary manual code from HMRC with a letter explaining how they can use this code to claim their entitlement.?
This code is temporary but is valid until they receive their next digital code.?
The DfE has sent more information which we have summarised for providers and parents here.
England: Updating your nursery policies with the new EYFS
NDNA’s pre-written templates will save you time and money?
NDNA provides its members with over 90 pre-written policies and procedure templates to help save nursery owners and managers time and money. Our early years experts, along with a team of employment and contract lawyers, and health and safety consultants have done the hard work, so you don’t have to!?
Scotland: Safe staffing??
Health and Care (Staffing) (Scotland) Act 2019 webinars
Within the ELC sector, the Health and Care (Staffing) (Scotland) Act 2019 places duties on providers of daycare to children, including childminders. Care Inspectorate have run a series of webinars to inform the sector.
Watch them as they become available here.
Wales: Professional Registration Consultation?
The Deputy Minister for Social Services launched a consultation on professional registration of the childcare and playwork workforce?
The full consultation document outlines what a workforce register is, how it could impact the childcare and playwork sector and who should have to join a register. If this proposal was to go ahead there would be further consultations to work out the details of how the register would operate in practice. Please give your views by the closing date of 7 March 2024. FAQs are also available. NDNA Cymru will be completing its own response to the consultation based on member's views.?
Internet Safety Day
How can educators promote internet safety in early years settings?
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It’s Internet Safety Day on 6 February and NDNA’s early years experts have written a free activity for early years professionals to embed into their children’s learning, helping them to develop an awareness of how to use the internet safely whilst identifying a range of emotions and talking about their own experiences.?
How can nurseries support parents with internet safety?
Your free myNDNA tips download for early years professionals?
Developing effective strategies to support parents with their personal online safety helps the whole family to build and maintain a safe online environment. From offering live demonstrations of how to choose and set parental controls, to talking to parents about the screen time their children have access to, early years educators can support families in their early years settings to be safer online. Why not further improve your practice and take NDNA’s free ‘online safety in early years’ quiz??
Download: Supporting children’s emotional well-being?
Your free factsheet of the month
It is vital that children’s emotional needs are effectively met from an early age by sensitive, knowledgeable, caring adults. This averts behavioural problems and equips children with emotional resilience that will help them to cope in the future.
Head to myNDNA to download your free factsheet of the month (PDF), selected by NDNA’s early years experts.?
Nursery Food Hygiene training, just ￡5 throughout February
Our Level 2 Food Safety and Hygiene course is just ￡5 per course for NDNA members, throughout February and until 8 March - don’t miss out on our special offer!??
All food handlers, including childcare practitioners, must have an understanding of the basic principles of food hygiene. They need to know how to work safely to protect the food they serve from contamination. By taking this course, childcare practitioners will meet the legal and curriculum requirements for preparing, handling, cooking and serving food.?
Early years educators can find a wealth of free resources about food in nurseries on myNDNA.? ?
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