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Worcestershire Early Years Community Page

We aim to keep our early years community updated on national and local initiatives, as well as any support groups and meetings that are operating locally.

To ensure you stay informed and connected the Early Years team provides: bulletins; update meetings; a Facebook page.

Follow the Early years Facebook page for links to early years sector news, national and local policy, training and support. 

Early years news bulletins

11 April 2025 Early Years Bulletin 230

17 March 2025 Early Years Bulletin 229

14 February 2025 Early Years Bulletin 228

17 January 2025 Early Years Bulletin 227

13 December 2024 Early Years Bulletin 226

15 November 2024 Early Years Bulletin 225

18 October 2024 Early Years Bulletin 224

14 June 2024 Early Years Bulletin 221

17 May 2024 Early Years Bulletin 220

19 April 2024 Early Years Bulletin 219

22 March 2024 Early Years Bulletin 218 

22 February 2024 Early Years Bulletin 217

19 January 2024 Early Years Bulletin 216

15 December 2023 Early Years Bulletin 215

14 November 2023 Early Years Bulletin 214

13 October 2023 Early Years Bulletin 213

14 September 2023 Early Years Bulletin 212

Early years update meetings

These meetings will support providers to understand new legislation and guidance to develop and enhance the practice of settings and childminders. 

Open to all and free to attend the most convenient date, time to suit you and your setting. Places must be booked via CPD online and in the first instance please restrict attendance to two people from each setting.

Access CPD online

Meeting notes

For more information or copies of the latest meeting notes please email: EYCC@worcestershire.gov.uk

Heart Midlands Stronger Practice Hub

Early Years Stronger Practice Hubs provide advice, share good practice and offer evidence-based professional development for early years practitioners.

They are part of the Department for Education (DfE)'s Early Years Education COVID-19 Recovery Package, which also includes the early years experts and mentors programme.

Heart Midlands Stronger Practice Hub covers Birmingham, Coventry, Herefordshire, Solihull, Warwickshire, Worcestershire

Local support groups for early years providers

The Wyre Forest Childminding Group is a group of childminders who are based in Kidderminster,  Stourport-on-Severn and Bewdley. Click the link below to for more information: 

Wyre Forest Childminders website

National support groups for early years providers

  • Foundation Years website for the latest news, policy and resources for early years professionals
  • Early Years Alliance website
  • Professional Association for Childcare and Early Years website
  • National Day Nurseries Association website
  • National Children's Bureau - A better start

Worcestershire Early Years Community Hub

These meetings are a collaboration between Worcester University colleagues, the early years team at Worcestershire County Council and early years providers. We aim to create a space for our early years community to come together to network, share good practice, learn from each other, creating supportive and collaborative relationships.

We meet once a term at Worcester University and each session will have a focus lead by the group, for example our previous session looked at ways to support wellbeing in early years settings. 

Come and join us, to book on look out for an email invite which will be sent out to all providers at the beginning of each term, we will also publish dates in the early years bulletin and on our Facebook page.

Each session is different with a range of activities to promote discussion, reflection, and best practice.

For more details about Worcestershire’s Early Years Community Hub, please contact Sharon Jones eycc@worcestershire.gov.uk

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