The bulletins include relevant up-to-date news on changes to policy, training, safeguarding, network meetings, surveys and much more.
It is emailed directly to the registered email address for early years providers and previous issues are available to view on this page.
Please pass bulletins on to all staff within your setting or signpost them to this page.
If you have any ideas for articles you would like to see in future bulletins, please email the Early Education and Childcare team - eeac@staffordshire.gov.uk
Previous bulletins
Issue 6 - 9 October 2026
- Looking ahead to September 2027: early identification, timely support and successful transitions
- New Information Sharing duty
- FREE Staffordshire Safeguarding Children Partnership Multi-Agency Conference
- Free-Early Years Safeguarding Forum
- Staffordshire Safeguarding Children Partnership
- Free training opportunities
- Childminders: report new people in the setting
- Families are invited to help our giraffe find a name
- Funded Childcare Toolkit
Issue 5 - 2 October 2026
- Eligibility checking for 2-year-olds and your Early Years portal
- Could local childcare demand data help grow your business?
- Finance news - Autumn Term 2026 Actual Task and Census
- FREE Staffordshire Safeguarding Children Partnership Multi-Agency Conference
- NPQ in early years leadership - registration now open
- School Readiness working group in partnership with the Reach Foundation
- Launch of new SEND CPD training for all early years practitioners
- Staffordshire Safeguarding Children Partnership
- Free training opportunities
- Ofsted’s early years blog
- Families are invited to help our giraffe find a name
- Funded Childcare Toolkit
Issue 4 - 25 September 2026
- Funded childcare Toolkit
- Ofsted’s early years blog
- New research identifies three programmes that boost young children’s development
- Finance news - Autumn Term 2026 Actual Task and Census
- FREE Staffordshire Safeguarding Children Partnership Multi-Agency Conference
- NPQ in early years leadership - registration now open
- Parents survey
- Staffordshire Safeguarding Children Partnership
- Free training opportunities
- Families are invited to help our giraffe find a name
Issue 3 - 18 September 2026
- DfE Information Sharing Duty - Statutory Guidance effective 30 September 2026
- Funded childcare Toolkit
- Sign up to Tax Free childcare if you're a childcare provider
- Engage: Do You Feel What I Feel? training for professionals working with children aged 2 to 7 years
- Early Years Qualifications List (EYQL) - new online format
- Early Years Capital Funding supporting childcare growth in Staffordshire
- National Professional Qualifications (NPQ) Review – NPQ for early years leaders
- Keeping children safe in education
- Parents survey
- Staffordshire Safeguarding Children Partnership
- Free training opportunities
- National Year of Reading – Autumn term events and resources
- Families are invited to help our giraffe find a name
Issue 2 - 11 September 2026
- Early Communication Screening - new dates
- Right Help, Right Time - make the right call
- The Disclosure and Barring Service
- Childcare Sufficiency Assessment 2026 published
- Early Years Funding consultation
- DfE - Ofsted joint vodcast on safer sleep
- Working or volunteering in regulated activity with children
- Supporting toilet independence before school
- Have your say on early years teaching reform
- Parents survey
- Staffordshire Safeguarding Children Partnership
- Free training opportunities
- Families are invited to help our giraffe find a name