The Qualifications and Curriculum Development Agency (QCDA), which develops and assesses the curriculum, has been seeking the views of practitioners from across the early years sector on how the first year of the EYFS has gone.
Jan Dubiel, QCDA's EYFS programme manager, told CYP Now that early findings from completed questionnaires indicate "a lot of misunderstandings", which have "produced challenges".
Dubiel said that many practitioners are overestimating the level of evidence required from them.
"The information is out there and everybody has received some sort of training, but more work needs to be done around exposing and dispelling myths and being clear about what is and is not required of practitioners delivering the EYFS," he added.
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