EYFS Framework: key links

• The EYFS Statutory Framework applies to early years provision in England. 
• The EYFS Profile handbook provides guidance on the statutory assessment at the end of the Reception year.
• Revised non-statutory guidance entitled Development Matters supports the framework (note this is substantially changed from the 2012 publication of the same name)
• The Early Years Coalition (16 sector organisations, including Early Education) has published Birth to 5 Matters: non-statutory guidance by the sector, for the sector, which provides additional support for implementing the EYFS framework.
• Find additional information through the government’s Foundation Years website