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Legal Update: Impact of EYFS reforms

Emma Goddard, membership and communications officer at Coram Family and Childcare, outlines the changes to early years standards and what the impact of these will be for providers and children.
A separate EYFS framework will cover childminders. Picture: Svitlana/Adobe Stock
A separate EYFS framework will cover childminders. Picture: Svitlana/Adobe Stock

In May, the government launched a consultation on proposed changes to the requirements in the early years foundation stage (EYFS) framework, a piece of statutory guidance that sets out “the standards that school and childcare providers must meet for the learning, development and care of children from birth to five”.

Coram Family and Childcare (CFC), along with 2,659 nursery managers, childminders, academics and charities, responded to the government on the proposed changes to the EYFS framework. On 27 October, the government published its response to the consultation, setting out which proposed measures they would be taking forward and which they would not, in response to the feedback received.

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