Nursery World - Providers affirm support for EYFS in consultation

Most nurseries, childcare workers and childminders support the EYFS and want it to stay, according to reports by early years organisations who asked their members for their views on the early years framework as part of their response to the Government's consultation.

Evidence submitted for the consultation, which closed on 30 September, will feed into the independent review of the EYFS being led by Dame Clare Tickell.

The National Childminding Association outlined concerns that any move to a lighter-touch framework would be detrimental to the childminding profession, the early years sector and to children's development.

Most childminders want to keep the EYFS

Joint chief executives Catherine Farrell and Liz Bayram (pictured right) said, 'The overwhelming message from our members is that they want the framework to stay.'

They said the EYFS has also led to a 'huge improvement' in childminders' practice, with 68 per cent of childminders achieving good or outstanding grades in their Ofsted inspections since it was introduced two years ago.

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