EYFS Documentation and Links
Resources supporting the implementation of the current Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS):
An audit of the MUSTs and SHOULDs within the current Early Years Foundations Stage statutory framework (2025) can be found below, under links to further resources.
Statutory guidance:
- Early years foundation stage statutory framework for childminders
- EYFS statutory framework for group and school-based providers
- SEND: guide for early years settings - GOV.UK
Non-statutory guidance:
- Birthto5Matters-download
- Development Matters - Non-statutory curriculum guidance for the early years foundation stage
- Progress check at age two – Non-statutory guidance for the early years foundation stage
- What-to-expect-in-the-EYFS-complete-FINAL-16.09-compressed.pdf
Useful websites to support you in your setting:
- Child's Progress checker - Speech & Language UK
- Help for early years providers : Get help for your setting
- Home - Starting Reception
- Potty training: how to start & best age to potty train - ERIC
- Tiny Happy People
Areas of learning and development:
- Help for early years providers : Communication and language
- Help for early years providers : Physical development
- Help for early years providers : Personal, social and emotional development
- Help for early years providers : Literacy
- Help for early years providers : Mathematics
- Help for early years providers : Understanding the world
- Help for early years providers : Expressive arts and design
- 2025 reception baseline assessment: administration guidance - GOV.UK
- Progress check at age 2 - GOV.UK
Curriculum:
- Help for early years providers : Curriculum planning
- Preparing for Literacy: how can the evidence help us to think about our curriculum in the EYFS?
DfE documentation:
- Early Years Foundation Stage nutrition guidance (May 2025)
- Help for early years providers : Check an early years qualification
- The reading framework - GOV.UK
- The writing framework - GOV.UK
English as an additional language (EAL):
- Help for early years providers : English as an additional language (EAL)
- Telford & Wrekin Council | Multicultural Development Team (MDT)
Environment:
- A good place to be Two | Training resources | Community Playthings
- Early Years Free Audits & Guides | Early Excellence
- Early Years Toolkit | EEF
- Outdoor environments | Training resources | Community Playthings
- The baby room: a practical guide for early years educators
Libraries and books:
- Bookfinder | BookTrust
- creating-a-reading-spine-hand-out-2137908.pdf
- Join the library | Shropshire Council
- Libraries | Shropshire Council
Transitions:
- Early Years Inclusion Advice and Funding | Shropshire Learning Gateway
- Help for early years providers : SEND assessment guidance and resources
- Inclusion Development Programme - Supporting children with Behavioural, Emotional and Social Difficulties:
- SEND code of practice: 0 to 25 years - GOV.UK
- Child's Progress checker - Speech & Language UK
- Home - Speech and Language UK: Changing young lives
- Speech & language therapy
- Tiny Happy People
Links to further resources
- Early communication screening tool - what next?
- Early speech and language development chart (1)
- Observational checkpoints from Development Matters
- UTW books for 0-3 year olds
- UTW books for 3-5 year olds
- EYFS MUSTs Schools and Settings (September 2025)
- EYFS MUSTs Childminders (September 2025)
- Early Years outdoor learning
- Progress Check at 2 summary
- The transition document from setting to school (September 2025)
- Know how guide working with under 2's (September 2025) (1)
- Know how guide working with two-year-olds (September 2025)
- Caring For Babies September 2025
- Letters and Sounds Phase 1 - bite-size