EYFS review response
In August, the Department for Education (DfE)
launched a “call for evidence” which gave early years providers and
parents the opportunity to have their say on the Early Years
Foundation Stage (EYFS). This was part of the ongoing EYFS review,
being led by Dame Clare Tickell, chief executive of children’s
charity, Action for Children.
NCMA has used members’ views gathered at
Regional Forums, as well as previous research, to submit a formal
response to the consultation. NCMA believes the Early Years
Foundation Stage (EYFS) has created a coherent and flexible
approach to care and learning across all childcare providers, and
that it should remain a mandatory requirement for all registered
childminders.
NCMA hopes that the EYFS review will recognise
the many strengths of EYFS, make recommendations to modify it where
they are based on practitioner experience of its delivery, but
avoid wholesale or major change to the framework which is clearly
driving up quality for all children receiving formal childcare, as
it intended.
You can read NCMA’s
consultation response in full here.