Preparing for your visit
Solihull Early Years Team Setting Improvement Visits
The setting improvement visit is an opportunity to reflect with your adviser on the
EYFS and/or Ofsted requirements and any support needs that the setting may have. This year we intend to ask providers to choose between a focus on
A Safeguarding and Welfare Culture (PVI Settings only)
or
The Impact of the Child’s Voice (PVI & Schools)
Please see setting support letters below for more information.
Setting support letters for 2024 – 2025
- Early Years PVI Settings: Setting Improvement Visit letter 2024-2025
- School: EYFS Support [Maintained Schools] 2024-2025
- Childcare Setting Improvement Visit letter 2024-2025
Supporting documents and information
- Click here to view the Early years foundation stage (EYFS) statutory framework
- Click here to visit our Ofsted and DfE Solgrid support page
Voice of 
the Child
- SIA guidance setting Impact of Child’s Voice 2024 2025
- Dingley’s Promise Training Module 5 ‘Voice of the child’
- Let’s Listen
- Listening as a Way of Life: Supporting Parents & Carers to Listen: Guide for Practitioners
- Listening to babies
- Listening to young disabled children
- Leadership for listening
Safeguarding and Welfare Culture
- NSPCC Casper – Safeguarding Summary EYFS Statutory Framework
- Maintaining quality early years provision in the face of workforce challenges Ofsted early years
- Nursery World – Safeguarding in 2024 Part 1 Identifying new priorities
- Nursery World – Safeguarding in 2024 part 2 Ensuring a person’s suitability
- Nursery World – Safeguarding in 2024 part 3 How to ensure new early years educators develop essential skills
- Nursery World – Safeguarding in 2024 Part 4, Effective leadership
- Sharing concerns about a child with parents and carers leaflet
- Voice of the child – Safeguarding
Early Years registered providers
- Early years inspection handbook for Ofsted-registered provision
- Ofsted Grades Self Evaulation Grid 2023
- Safeguarding review
- Area SENCos
Childcare registered providers