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.
The Setting Improvement visit this year will focus on a theme of belonging and there is a choice of two options for settings and Childminders:
- Option 1: Safeguarding and welfare: When I belong, I am kept safe and I feel safe.
- Option 2: Belonging: My key person builds on what I know and can do
Setting support letters and note of visit templates for 2025 – 2026
- Early Years Settings & Childminders: Setting Improvement Visit letter 2025-2026
Pre-visit self-evaluation questions
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Schools: School EYFS GLD networks 2025- 2026
- Childcare: Childcare Settings visit letter 2025-2026
Please see our Autumn 2025 Leaders and Managers briefing for an overview of the visit options – linked below:
- Leaders and Managers Briefing: Click here to view recording
- Presentation slides: L&M Briefing – Autumn Brief 2025 (PDF)
Belonging resources:
Case Study: Ahmed vs Captain Amazing! by Ben Kingston Hughes | Stronger Practice Hubs- Play Matters Guide 2025 Final
- Transitions: case studies
- Neglect resources
- Types of Neglect: Cumulative Harm
- Why a sense of belonging matters – Neurodiversity and the Shaping Us Framework – CFEC
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
Early Years registered providers
- Early years inspection handbook for Ofsted-registered provision
- Ofsted Grades Self Evaluation Grid 2023
- Safeguarding review
- Area SENCos
Childcare registered providers