this month, schools that want to use the baseline during the pilot year
from this September have until April to sign up.
Over the next few weeks, many local authorities will be running marketplace events and some of the providers are offering briefings to help schools and local authorities decide.
The pressure is on, as every provider needs to recruit a minimum number of primary schools to offer the baseline.
The Department for Education’s requirements stated that assessments must be ‘age-appropriate’ and ‘clearly linked’ to the EYFS’s learning and development requirements in communication and language, literacy and mathematics.
The DfE’s decision to scrap the EYFS Profile and introduce a baseline that children take in the first six weeks of starting Reception has been controversial from the start, and opposition to it has become more vocal in recent months.
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