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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
Help and support with implementing the EYFS framework
Buy or download Birth to 5 Matters
Non-statutory guidance to support implementation of the revised EYFS.
Professional development
Browse our current course programme for support on early years pedagogy and the EYFS
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Background to the 2021 reforms
We provided feedback on the planned EYFS reforms as an organisation and through the Early Years Coalition of sector organisations including:
You can also read the Education Endowment Foundation’s findings from the evaluation of the pilot of the draft revised ELGs, which ran in 23 schools in 2018-19.