After all, this substantial piece of guidance is still available on the Foundation Years website and has also been moved on to www.gov.uk (along with a whole lot of other things not to do with early years, that you may have been looking for!).
But DM's effective sidelining does raise suspicions about what else is going on behind the scenes. Some EYFS Profile moderators have been told not to use it to moderate judgements.
This is happening as Sir Michael Wilshaw has criticised the EYFS Profile and the assessment of early years children as too broad and needing to link in better to Key Stage 1 assessment, looking more at numbers and literacy.
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