Guidance and strategies

These pages are dedicated to providing you with strategies and guidance that are relevant to you as an early year's provider.

The documents have been sourced from Ofsted, National Strategies, Department for Education and the Local Authority and are in the following categories:

Safeguarding guidance

Information and documents regarding safeguarding, including national guidance, and safeguarding bulletins from the early years service.

Ofsted guidance

Information and documents regarding registration, regulation, complaints, inspection, general guidance and good practice resources.

Play, learning and development guidance

Information and documents regarding early talk, CLLD, the Observation Toolkit and general guidance.

Equality and diversity guidance

Information and documents regarding equality and diversity in early years.

Inclusion guidance

Information and documents regarding inclusion in early years, including the inclusion development programmes.

Templates and audit tools

Templates and audit tools that can be used and adapted to meet your provisions practices.

Other documents

The documents below have been produced by the Government and Plymouth City Council, or for the South West.

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