Develop, maintain and use records and reports
This video was produced by Laser Learning and looks at some of the different forms of documentation that might be used in an early years setting. Watch the video and make notes. Are the processes similar to those used in your own setting?
Click on the right arrow to watch one further video.
Table of Contents
- Tutorial Video
- Reading Materials
- Find and read your settings policies, procedures, and standard forms for recording information, producing reports and maintaining the security and confidentiality of information.
- 'Early years foundation stage profile handbook’ from the GOV.UK website
- 'Early years and childcare: Ofsted's enforcement policy’ on the Gov.uk website.
- ‘Report a serious childcare incident’ webpage on the Ofsted Online website
- 'General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) for nurseries’ from the National Day Nurseries Association
- 'Education inspection framework’ from GOV.UK
- 'The questions Ofsted might ask you and your nursery team’ from the Famly website.
- 'Information sharing: Advice for practitioners providing safeguarding services to children, young people, parents and carers’ from HM Government
- 'Study of Early Education and Development: Good Practice in Early Education’ research report from the Department for Education
- 'Retention period for records’ from the Early Years Alliance
- 'How to Keep Your Nursery’s Data Secure’ from Teach Early Years
- Presentation
- Click to launch this lesson’s presentation on ‘ICT in observations, assessment and transitions'.
- Click to launch this lesson’s second presentation on 'Completing records'.
- Click to launch this lesson’s third presentation on 'Confidentiality: Keeping information safe'.
- Good Practice Example
- Good Practice Example
- Good Practice Example
- Interactive Quiz
- Evidence Opportunities
- Extended Learning
- Early years practitioners should be engaged in a cycle of supervision according to the EYFS statutory framework. Click to read this information from Social Care Wales which explains 'Effective supervision in social care, early years and childcare'.
- Click to read more about the duty on all organisations to report certain types of ‘Personal data breach’ to the relevant supervisory authority in the GDPR section of the Information Commissioner’s Office website.
- In this section of the Oxfordshire County Council website there are a number useful resources to help you develop an early years setting. Read the forms and see if there is anything that they ask that you could add to your setting’s forms.
- This section of the Observation & Assessment website provides a section of pro-formas on ‘Observation and assessment’.
- Think And Challenge
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