EYBS Ltd - Early Years Consultancy

02/09/2026

The latest edition of The EYBS Brief is now out 📬

This month, we’re focusing on some practical things to have on your radar as September gets underway, including:
🔹 Quick wins for managers
🔹 An Ofsted readiness check
🔹 Important safer sleep updates
🔹 September dates and reminders
🔹 A free Staff Wellbeing & Self-Care resource
🔹 Practical ideas to help your setting run that little bit more smoothly

We’re also delighted to feature Makaton Tutor Mel in this month’s Partner Spotlight 🤝

Mel offers flexible online and face-to-face Makaton training for individuals, groups and workplace teams, including tailored options for early years settings looking to build staff confidence.

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21/08/2026

Are you looking for a practical way to understand and support children’s communication and language development?

The Communication Compass is an early years screening and support toolkit covering children from six months to five years.

It helps practitioners:
✅ Identify communication and language strengths
✅ Recognise emerging needs
✅ Observe attention and interaction naturally
✅ Plan appropriate next steps
✅ Make confident, child-centred decisions
✅ Support targeted intervention and meaningful progress
Designed for use through authentic everyday observations, the resource helps practitioners build a clearer picture of each child’s communication journey.

💷 £24.99
📥 Digital resource
🛒 Purchase here:
https://www.earlyyearsbusinesssupport.co.uk/product-page/communication-compass

The Communication Compass is a comprehensive early years screening and support toolkit designed to help practitioners identify children’s communication and language strengths, recognise emerging needs, and plan effective next steps. Covering age bands from 6 months to 5 years, the toolkit guides p...

19/08/2026

What are children genuinely experiencing as they move through your setting each day?

Our Learning Walk—September 2026 resource is a self-guided quality-assurance tool that helps managers evaluate practice across rooms, routines and age groups.

Aligned with the Ofsted Early Years Inspection Toolkit and the EYFS statutory framework for use from September 2026, it supports leaders to review:
✅ Safeguarding
✅ Inclusion
✅ Curriculum and teaching
✅ Children’s achievement
✅ Behaviour and routines
✅ Welfare and wellbeing
✅ Learning environments
✅ Leadership and governance

Use observation prompts, professional-discussion questions, record-review checks and RAG ratings to collect evidence, identify inconsistencies and create focused improvement plans.

💷 £24.99
📥 Downloadable and editable
🛒 Purchase here:
https://www.earlyyearsbusinesssupport.co.uk/product-page/learning-walk-september-2026

A comprehensive, self-guided quality assurance tool designed to help early years leaders evaluate what children experience across their setting and identify clear priorities for improvement. Aligned with the Ofsted Early Years Inspection Toolkit and the EYFS statutory framework for use from Septembe...

17/08/2026

17/08/2026

The Ofsted inspection approach and EYFS requirements applying from 1 September 2026 bring important areas for early years leaders to consider.

Our September 2026 Inspection Prep Bundle is a comprehensive working toolkit designed to help providers prepare with greater clarity, confidence and control.

It includes structured tools covering:
✅ Safeguarding
✅ Inclusion and SEND
✅ Curriculum and teaching
✅ Children’s achievement
✅ Behaviour, routines and wellbeing
✅ Leadership and governance
✅ Safer recruitment and DBS requirements
✅ Safe sleeping
✅ Safer eating and weaning
✅ Screen-use guidance
✅ Vocabulary and mathematics
✅ EYFS learning and development exemptions

Use RAGB-rated audits, evidence prompts, professional-conversation questions and action-planning tools to identify risks, confirm secure practice and demonstrate continuous improvement.

💷 £99
📥 Digital resource

🛒 Purchase here:
https://www.earlyyearsbusinesssupport.co.uk/product-page/september-2026-inspection-prep-bundle

Don’t wait for an inspection notification to begin evaluating your practice.

Updated for inspections from 1 September 2026 Prepare for your next Ofsted inspection with greater clarity, confidence and control. The EYBS Ofsted Inspection Readiness Toolkit is a practical working document designed for nursery managers, early years leaders and providers in England. It has been up...

14/08/2026

Inspection preparation should be part of continuous improvement—not a last-minute rush when the call arrives.

Our Ofsted Inspection Ready: Complete RAG Audit Toolkit helps nursery managers and leadership teams evaluate their provision, identify priorities and create manageable improvement plans.

The pack contains eight detailed audits:
✅ Full-setting self-audit
✅ Baby-room audit
✅ Toddler-room audit
✅ Two-year-old-room audit
✅ Preschool-room audit
✅ Transitions audit
✅ Safe-sleeping audit
✅ Safe-food and weaning audit

Each audit includes an editable template, a completed example, RAG ratings, evidence prompts and action-planning sections.
You’ll also receive a Manager’s Manual to support implementation across your setting.
Aligned with the Ofsted Early Years Inspection Toolkit for use from 1 September 2026.

💷 £59.99
🛒 Purchase here:
https://www.earlyyearsbusinesssupport.co.uk/product-page/ofsted-inspection-ready-complete-rag-audit-toolkit

Prepare your nursery or Early Years setting for the new Ofsted inspection framework with a comprehensive collection of practical, easy-to-use self-audit tools. The Ofsted Inspection Ready RAG Audit Toolkit has been designed to help nursery owners, managers and leadership teams evaluate their provisi...

12/08/2026

Starting your childminding journey is exciting—but preparing for your Ofsted registration visit can feel overwhelming.

Our Ofsted Registration Visit Readiness Checklist for Childminders helps you work through the process one manageable step at a time.

It covers:
✅ Home environment and safety checks
✅ Safeguarding requirements
✅ Health, hygiene and risk assessments
✅ Required documents and evidence
✅ First aid, training and suitability
✅ Learning and development
✅ Policies and procedures
✅ Resources and equipment
✅ Questions inspectors may ask
✅ A final 48-hour readiness check
Designed for new childminders and those returning to the profession, it includes the relevant September 2026 EYFS and registration updates.

💷 £19.99
📥 Editable and printable digital download
🛒 Purchase here:
https://www.earlyyearsbusinesssupport.co.uk/product-page/ofsted-registration-visit-readiness-checklist-for-childminders

12/08/2026

Planning to open a nursery?

There can be hundreds of tasks to coordinate—from your initial business plan and premises to Ofsted registration, recruitment, policies, marketing and finally opening your doors.

The EYBS New Nursery Start-Up Checklist helps you bring everything together in one structured working document.

It covers:
✅ Business planning and market research
✅ Company structure, finance and insurance
✅ Premises, planning and lease considerations
✅ Ofsted registration and EYFS requirements
✅ Safeguarding, health and safety
✅ Staff recruitment and suitability checks
✅ Policies and essential documentation
✅ Equipment and learning environments
✅ Funding, fees and administration
✅ Marketing, admissions and parent communication
✅ Final opening-readiness checks
Record who is responsible, add target dates, track progress and build an organised evidence file as your plans develop.

💷 £17.99
📥 Editable Microsoft Word download

🛒 Purchase here:
https://www.earlyyearsbusinesssupport.co.uk/product-page/new-nursery-start-up-checklist

11/08/2026

**Is continuous provision sometimes misunderstood in Early Years?**

I'd be interested to hear what other Early Years professionals think about this.

When we visit settings, one of the most useful questions we can ask isn't:

**"What resources are available?"**

It's:

**"What can children actually learn here?"**

There can be a temptation to think that good continuous provision means constantly changing activities, adding attractive enhancements or creating something new for children every day.

But strong continuous provision should give children opportunities to return to familiar resources and experiences, practise skills, develop their own ideas, solve problems and deepen their learning.

And then there's the adult.

When should they join the play?
When should they model something?
When should they introduce new vocabulary?
When should they provide additional challenge?
And, importantly, when should they step back?

We've been developing a new EYBS resource around this and it has prompted some really interesting conversations.

So I'd love to know:

👇 **If you could change ONE thing about continuous provision in your setting tomorrow, what would it be?**

The resources?
The environment?
Adult interactions?
Understanding the learning behind each area?
Something completely different?

I'd genuinely love to hear what other settings are finding.

Send a message to learn more