cypwf level 3

EYMP Unit 1 Context and Principles for Early Years Provision
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Level
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EYMP Unit 1 Context and Principles for Early Years
Provision
3
4

Learning outcomes
The learner will

Assessment criteria
The learner can:

1. Understand the purposes and principles of early years frameworks

1.1 Explain the legal status and principles of the relevant early years framework/s, and how national and local guidance materials are used in settings.
Example 1: The framework is the EYFS
(Early Years Foundation Stage. )
The Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) is a comprehensive statutory framework that sets the standards for the learning, development and care of children from birth to five.
All providers are required to use the EYFS to ensure that whatever setting parents choose, they can be confident their child will receive a quality experience that supports their care, learning and development.
For help with local guidance materials, refer to your workplace EYAT also consult your workplaces policy & procedures and get additional guidance from your line manager.
Example 2: The overarching aim of the
EYFS is to help young children achieve the five Every Child Matters outcomes of staying safe, being healthy, enjoying and achieving, making a positive contribution, and achieving economic well-being by: setting the standards for the learning, development and care young children should experience when they are attending a setting outside their family home, ensuring that every child makes progress and that no child gets left behind; providing for equality of opportunity and anti-discriminatory practice and ensuring

that every child is included and not disadvantaged because of ethnicity, culture or religion, home language, family background, learning difficulties or disabilities, gender or ability; creating the framework for partnership working between parents and professionals, and between all the settings that