Schools, colleges and children's services

Early years: detailed information

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  Education and Skills Funding Agency, Closed organisation: National College for Teaching and Leadership, Closed organisation: Department for Education and Skills, and HM Treasury

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Early learning and childcare

• Early education and childcare
• Supervision of activity with children
• Sure Start children's centres: guidance for local authorities
• SEND: guide for early years settings
• Childcare Bill

Information for parents and carers

• Find free early education and childcare
• Find a nursery school place
• Find a registered childminder
• Check what help you could get with childcare costs
• 30 hours free childcare
• Tax-Free Childcare
• Sign in to your childcare account
• Claim a top-up refund or compensation for Childcare service issues

Early years foundation stage

• Early years foundation stage
• Early years foundation stage (EYFS) statutory framework
• National curriculum assessments: early years foundation stage
• 2019 early years foundation stage: assessment and reporting arrangements (ARA)

Providing childcare

• Become a childminder or nanny (England)
• Register as a childminder agency in England
• Sign up to Tax-Free Childcare if you’re a childcare provider
• Sign in to your childcare provider account for Tax-Free Childcare

Standards, qualifications and training

• Early years teachers' standards
• Check early years qualifications
• Early years educator (level 3): qualifications criteria

Funding for childcare providers

• Early years pupil premium and funding for 2-year-olds
• Early years national funding formula: funding rates and guidance

Inspection of early years and childcare providers

• Being inspected as a childminder or childcare provider