The Department for Education has today launched a short month-long consultation on proposed changes to some parts of the learning and development requirements in the revised EYFS framework.
Alongside this consultation the department has also published a formal Government response to the revised EYFS.
The DfE has made what it calls ‘substantive changes’ to the goals relating to mathematics and literacy, in response to feedback from the sector.
The department received more than 2,300 responses to the revised draft of the EYFS framework.
The DfE said that while the results showed ‘broad support’ for the proposed new goals, those relating to mathematics and literacy received ‘the least positive responses’.
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