Early education and childcare - statutory guidelines for local authorities  and Model Agreement: Early Years provision free of charge and free childcare

Please download a summary of the key announcements (DOCX, 14.6 KB) included in the Early Years workforce strategy which was published on Friday 3 March. The government response to the consultation on level 3 qualification requirements is available here

The strategy is available here

The Statutory Guidance and Model Agreement were also published on Friday and can be viewed at the following links;

• Statutory guidance
• Model agreement

You can also download a summary of the changes made to the EYFS (PDF, 333.2 KB), which was also published on Friday. The EYFS framework is available here

Early Years and Childcare