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Have you recently changed your email details? If, so please can you contact us and let us know. We are currently trying to contact all our members to share some important news and updates with you. 

The old classic bank account is now closed and it is important for all members to check their standing order arrangements.  Please amend your standing orders now and ensure that any bank transfers are made into the new Account (see members only part of the website). Please contact either Viki Veale, our Membership Secretary or [email protected] to change your details. 

Recruiting now!

Do you work with children and young people with toileting difficulties, who also have special educational needs and disability?

We want to hear from you!

We are conducting an online survey with school and social care staff about toileting for children and young people with special educational needs and disability. The NHS wants to improve toileting services for children and young people up to the age of 25 years. We need to hear your experiences of trying ways to improve toileting and how toileting is managed. The results of the survey will help inform health and care services for children in the future. To take part in the survey visit: https://sites.exeter.ac.uk/iconstudy/taking-part/

Hub and Spoke Expressions of Interest

The Froebel Trust is calling for expressions of interest for its Hub and Spoke programme, https://www.froebel.org.uk/about-us/hub-and-spoke-programme/

A 'Hub' is potentially a partnership between an ECE setting and researchers, although this need not necessarily be the case and applicants can decide how to constitute their proposed Hub, which should do things like explore, interrogate, exemplify and disseminate Froebelian approaches to ECEC. The criteria and objectives are detailed on the website. A fascinating project?

'Getting it right in the Early Years Foundation Stage: a review of the evidence'.  Exciting launch of the report from the Centre for Research in Early Childhood authors Chris Pascal, Tony Bertram, Liz Rouse. Getting it right means looking at the evidence, a sector-led response to the proposed changes to the EYFS.

TACTYC Executive Members have been highlighting relevant issues in Nursery World!

Read the latest from our President Wendy Scott 'Time to look and listen Minister'. Wendy asks Nick Gibb, minister now in charge of early years, to pay attention to the evidence on effective practice in the latest opinion piece  https://www.nurseryworld.co.uk/nursery-world/opinion/1168766/time-to-look-and-listen-minister

Helen Moylett and Nancy Stewart call for sector-wide collaboration ahead of the review of Development Matters 'Its's time to talk!' 

TACTYC are also involved in the EYFS Launch Proposed EYFS changes ‘not supported by evidence’ https://www.nurseryworld.co.uk/nursery-world/news/1168714/proposed-eyfs-changes-not-supported-by-evidence

Interesting information from Alice Bradbury's research commissioned by More Than a Score on Head teachers' views of baseline.  The coverage includes quotes from our own Nancy Stewart - look out for Nancy on ITV on Thursday!  

https://www.tes.com/news/primary-heads-condemn-baseline-tests-utter-madness

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2019/sep/03/school-heads-criticise-new-reception-tests-for-five-year-olds

https://www.nurseryworld.co.uk/nursery-world/news/1168626/most-primary-heads-negative-about-introduction-of-reception-baseline

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/education

TACTYC supports Fair Future Funding Action Week 10th June 2019

TACTYC strongly supports the ‘Fair Future Funding’ campaign. High quality early childhood education and care is vital for our children and families. But it needs to be properly funded for all if it is to be accessible and sustainable.   

‘Enough is enough’

Childcare funding rates were set and frozen in 2015 – this means they don’t take into account the subsequent increases to business hikes, minimum wage rises or any other cost increases since then. This has forced providers to put up parent fees and, in some cases, close.

The early years plays a vital role in our communities helping children reach their full potential and enabling parents to get back into work - but the sector is struggling to stay sustainable due to government under funding.

This summer we have a chance to change that.

https://www.eyalliance.org.uk/fair-future-funding-action-week-10-june-2019

The Government’s ‘Comprehensive Spending Review’ – where the government sets out its spending priorities – is taking place in the coming months. It’s an opportunity for providers and parents to warn MPs about what will happen to childcare provision in their constituencies unless the government takes action on under funding.

Join in the Early Years Alliance action week from 10 June: write to your MP, invite them to your setting and make sure everyone knows the effects of the childcare funding crisis.

Providers (and parents) can sign-up to take part using this link: www.eyalliance.org.uk/fairfuturefunding