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Making a Big Difference in the Early Years Foundation Stage - A handbook for local authorities
- Publication date:
- Feb 2009
- Ref:
- 00074-2009BKT-EN
- Audience:
- Early years strategic lead, Local authority staff, National Strategies consultant
- Function:
- Guidance, Leadership, Intervention
- Format:
- Handbook
The aims of this publication are to:
- provide a summary of the Making a Big Difference (MABD) Programme
- describe how the MABD strands work
- explain the importance of audit and self-evaluation for MABD.
This publication is primarily aimed at local authority (LA) colleagues. Experienced MABD LAs will find this handbook and the supporting materials useful for reference. LAs new to the programme will find it a helpful starting point. Many LAs not in MABD have expressed an interest in MABD approaches and are adopting the programme as a way of rationalising their Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) planning for increasing the threshold and narrowing the gap. This handbook will help them in this work.
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In this section
- Building Futures: Believing in children – A focus on provision for Black children in the Early Years Foundation Stage
- Building Futures: Developing trust – A focus on provision for children from Gypsy, Roma and Traveller backgrounds in the Early Years Foundation Stage
- Building Futures: Developing trust – GRT EYFS guided resource
- Challenging practice to further improve learning, playing and interacting in the Early Years Foundation Stage
- Children thinking mathematically: PSRN essential knowledge for Early Years practitioners
- EYFS Media and Parents Pack
- EYFS framework: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
- Early Years: Working with parents and carers e-learning course
- Early Years Quality Improvement Support Programme (EYQISP)
- Early Years consultant's handbook
- Every Child a Talker: Guidance for Consultants and Early Language Lead Practitioners (Third instalment)
- Improving quality and raising standards in the Early Years: A directory of resources for local authorities (2nd edition January 2009)
- Making a Big Difference in the Early Years Foundation Stage - A handbook for local authorities
- Registration and inspection
- The Early Years Foundation Stage
- The Early Years Foundation Stage: Setting the Standards for Learning, Development and Care for children from birth to five - May 2008
See also
- Making a big difference (MABD) case study: Foundation Stage self-evaluation process in Newham
- Making a big difference (MABD) case study: narrowing the gap in Kent
- Making a big difference (MABD) case study: narrowing the gap through PPEL and the early assessment group in Tower Hamlets
- Making a big difference (MABD) case study: narrowing the gap using MABD approaches in Waltham Forest
- Making a big difference (MABD) case study: recording children's achievements and planning next steps in North Somerset
- Progress Matters: Reviewing and enhancing young children's development
