See all the guidance below:

• Progress check at age 2 (GOV.UK)
• DfE's Help for Early Years Providers, childminders and staff in Private, Voluntary and Independent (PVI) settings
• Starting Well Partnership (NHS) supporting families, parents, children and young people
• DfE Development Matters non-statutory curriculum guidance (GOV.UK)
• Download or buy a copy of Birth to 5 Matters
• Framework for Evaluating Provision for Looked After Children (PDF)
• Early years foundation stage (EYFS) statutory framework (GOV.UK)
• Learning, Playing and Interacting - Good practice in the Early Years Foundation Stage
• Help for early years providers - Department for Education
• The reading framework: teaching the foundations of literacy from (GOV.UK)
• resources from The National Strategies Primary to help practitioners help children with mathematics
• Early Childhood Maths Group (ECMG) toolkit on spatial reasoning
• The importance of the voice of the child 

Download:

• Characteristics of Effective Learning (words to help) (PDF)
• Early Years Pathway for Social Workers (PDF)
• Introduction to the role of the Early Years Area Learning Advocate (PDF)
• Promoting positive behaviour management (PDF)
• Worcestershire Early Years Child Voice Guidance (PDF)
• Worcestershire EYFS SMART targets (Word)
• EYFS Assessment areas Guidance (PDF)
• Guidance for completion of SEND section of PEP (Word)

We recognise Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) is paramount to successful learning for all our EYFS children:

Our Early Years SEMH offer (PDF)

Please note: some offers may differ depending on whether your school is in or out of county.

How local authorities and early years settings should provide the entitlement for 2, 3 and 4 year-olds:

• 30 hours free childcare: LA and early years provider guide (GOV.UK) 

See all support and guidance below:

• A Celebratory Approach to Working with Children with SEND (PDF)
• Babies' adventures in Music from YouTube
• BBC bitesize
• B'Opera
• Collar and Cuffs Co
• Curriculum focused independent learning resource from TTS
• Early Arts
• Early learning and development - Start for Life (NHS)
• Early Years Professional Development Programme
• Education Endowment Foundation
• Family corner free online learning for all the family
• Feeling Better
• Hungry Little MInds
• JABADAO
• Little Hands Little Bins
• Oxford Owl
• Parenting Smart (Place2Be)
• Second Hand Dance
• Solihull Approach - FREE online parenting courses
• Spark Arts
• TailfeatherTV - YouTube
• Talent 25
• What to expect in the EYFS (PDF)