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Early years: detailed information

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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
  • Early years business sustainability

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

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