EYFS

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Early Years Foundation Stage 2025

• Children develop and learn at different rates and in different ways. Their development is not neat and orderly!

The Department for Education (DfE) continually monitors and reviews safeguarding requirements for early years settings to ensure they are comprehensive and suitably robust to help providers keep children as safe as possible.

What We need to do, and are doing Already

From 1 September 2025, all registered early years providers must follow the new EYFS framework. Whatever your role and type of setting you work in, you’ll need to be working to the new framework.

• That’s why the Department for Education’s guidance document, Development Matters, sets out children’s learning in broad ages. It shows how lots of different experiences in the first three years of life will help your child to learn.

With the revised and updated Guidance 2025, this has strengthened safeguarding requirements introduce:

amendments to promote safer recruitment, including:
- New expectations to provide references
- Requirements to obtain references
- A requirement for safeguarding policies to include procedures to help ensure that only suitable individuals are recruited
New requirements for providers to follow up if a child is absent for a prolonged period of time, and amendments to ensure providers hold additional emergency contact details
New requirements to ensure safer eating
The creation of a safeguarding training criteria annex and a requirement for safeguarding policies to include details of how safeguarding training is delivered, including how practitioners are supported to put it into place
Amendments to ensure that early years students and trainees are required to have paediatric first aid (PFA) training for them to be included in ratios at the level below their level of study
New requirements to support whistleblowing
Amendments to ensure that children’s privacy during nappy changing and toileting is considered and balanced with safeguarding considerations.

The Document assists us to have conversations, if you’re worried about anything. Then we can decide together what to do next.

• The ‘checkpoints’ in the EYFS Development Assessments are not a ‘tick list’ to use for every child.

• Sometimes children have some early difficulties in their development. With the right help, they can quickly grow out of these difficulties.

• For example, 70% of children with delayed communication in the early years won’t have problems later in school. Those ‘late talkers’ need lots of opportunities to chat, play and read to help them grow out of their early difficulties.

• Some children will have long-term difficulties, so it’s important to identify what their needs are and make sure they get the support they need.

• Every child can make good progress, with the right support.

We know that children learn best through activities that capture their interests. Excel Child Care Services provides a wide variety of learning materials that are both interesting and educational.

Our soft cushioned playground and movement play sessions provide an excellent environment to develop gross motor skills.

Parental participation is an important component of our nursery. We foster parent involvement through various parent-child meetings and other parent-child reports throughout the year.

Ofsted Registered
Team Membership with Southwark Early Years
Infant, Toddler, and Nursery Programs
Holiday Club
Enriched Thematic-Based Curriculum
Individual Attention
Specialist Meals and Snacks
Excellent Outdoor Facilities
Computers
Music and Movement Special Times
Year-Round Care
Arts and Crafts
Learning Through Play

How Do We Assess The Development Of Your Child?

Throughout the nursery, we use the same assessment system for all children. As children grow and develop, they are assessed at an age-appropriate level from the EYFS. Each child is assessed in the Prime Areas and Specific Areas, and staff assess their key children twice every term. Parents and carers can arrange parent consultations with their child’s key person to discuss their development and what their next steps will be. If you’d like more information on how we assess your child, please see the link below.

‘What to expect in the Early Years Foundation Stage: a guide for parents’ – Please read the full document here – What to expect in the EYFS a Parents Guide