Main amendments are to the Safeguarding and Welfare Requirements, with the requirements for several policies removed. The learning and development aspects are largely unchanged, however.
Here is our summary of the new EYFS.
General
Learning and development requirements
Assessment
Safeguarding and Welfare Requirements
Staff qualifications, training, support and skills
Staff: child ratios
Before/after school care and holiday provision
A new paragraph spells out the loosening of regulation for these providers in terms of ratios, qualifications and learning and development – ‘sufficient staff as for a class of 30 children’; ‘for providers to determine how many staff are needed… and to determine what qualfications, if any, the manager and/or staff should have.’
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