EY News May 2025 #2
May 11, 2025
FAO Solihull early years and childcare providers
Just launched: 1,000 new funded EY SENCO Level 3 places sign up to access the free SENCo training.
You’ll benefit from expert guidance, practical resources and one-to-one tutor support every step of the way. Limited fully-funded places are available for:
- Level 3 practitioners in private, voluntary or independent (PVI) settings
- Ofsted-registered childminders
- Childminders registered with a child-minding agency (CMA)
Starting in June, the course equips Early Years professionals with the skills, confidence and knowledge to coordinate SEND provision in their setting.
DfE Early Education and Childcare Provider Regional Roadshow
The Department for Education (DfE) roadshows are for group-based setting leaders and managers. The dates for the remaining 2025 roadshows set up so far are below. You can now register your attendance or interest in future dates.
The events are an opportunity to engage with DfE to share your ideas, successes, concerns and challenges and help shape government’s current and future early education and childcare policy. You will also hear about the plan for the Best Start in Life pillar of our Opportunity Mission and the activity underway to meet the expanded childcare entitlements from September 2025.
You can register your interest for future regional roadshows, happening later in the year, via the register your interests form.
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Date |
Location |
Venue |
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21 May |
East of England |
Norwich City Football Club |
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3 June |
South-west |
DoubleTree by Hilton, Bristol City centre |
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26 June |
North-east |
Copthorne Hotel, Newcastle |
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8 July |
North-west |
The Midland, Manchester |
For queries, please contact EY.STAKEHOLDERS@EDUCATION.GOV.UK.
This free event from Foundation Years is your chance to hear from inspiring speakers and discover fresh ideas to enhance nutrition practices in your early years setting.
📅 Thursday 22nd May ⏰ 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM 📍 Microsoft Teams
New resources – Guidance to support maintained schools and academy trusts implement the National Wraparound Childcare Programme [link]
To support the delivery of the National Wraparound Childcare programme, Childcare Works has created a series of recorded information sessions for anyone who is exploring how the National Wraparound Childcare Programme can be delivered in a maintained school or academy trust.
The content is split into seven recorded sessions:
- Sessions One to Four contain information to help schools determine their role within the programme.
- Session Five is a series of guides to support setting up of provision.
- Session Six is about ongoing monitoring of provision.
- Session Seven is for schools who would like to work with a PVI.
New permanent LADO, Kenny Edgar starts in Solihull on Monday 2nd June 2025 …………….SSCP Newsletter -280425-pdf
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New posters promoting button battery safety – GOV.UK [link]
New posters promoting button battery safety provide 5 top tips to keep children safe. Ensure that you and your community are aware of the risks to young children.
Solihull provider engagement – would you be a member of our reference group?
We will soon be asking for early years and childcare provider representatives to join our Solihull reference group. We previously invited practitioners to guide our focus group. We would like to develop this as a more structured and consistent reference group. Draft terms of reference attached. Further information to follow. Could you join us as a Solihull representative? We would be grateful if previous members of the focus group would consider reference group membership.
It was lovely to see some Solihull leaders were able to ‘walk and talk’ on 2nd May – walking meetings are now used more frequently with the recognition that this supports both well-being and ‘getting the job done’. Research also shows they encourage creativity. Childminding can be very hard, getting together with a peer and your minded children to walk may be an option for you.