In an exclusive interview with Nursery World ahead of the review's publication, Dame Clare Tickell, who chaired the review, said there should be a shift away from giving equal weight to all six areas of learning in the EYFS.
She also said the EYFS should remain mandatory for everyone working with children from birth to five, including childminders.
Dame Clare says early years practitioners should give particular focus to three 'prime areas' of learning and development: communication and language, personal, social and emotional development, and physical development.
She told Nursery World, 'What I'm saying is that if you take communication and language, and personal, social and emotional development, and physical development, and see these as particularly prime for the nought to threes, concentrate on these three.'
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