Development Matters is guidance designed to support all practitioners in implementing the revised Early Years Foundation Stage. It is non-statutory, so nobody has to use it, but it was commissioned by the Department for Education (DfE) to be published alongside the revised EYFS statutory framework for the following reasons:
Development Matters is an updated version of Appendix 2 of the original EYFS Practice Guidance grids. It includes guidance (not present in the previous version) on the Characteristics of Effective Learning and on the cycle of observation, assessment and planning which should be at the heart of all good early years practice. At the same time, it is about half the size of the previous guidance.
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