Its disappearance from the DfE's website fuels fears that there could be plans to change the early years framework and move away from a play-based curriculum.
Nursery World understands that the Standards and Testing Agency (STA) has been told not to use Development Matters in future EYFS Profile guidance and that local authority moderators have also been told not to use it.
The guidance has been removed from the DfE’s website to www.gov.uk
The non-statutory guidance is intended to support practitioners in implementing the statutory requirements of the EYFS.
It was commissioned last year by the DfE ahead of the revised EYFS, which came into force in September.
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