Early Childhood Forum

The new website for ECF

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Membership

If you would like to find out how to become a member please go to our membership information page.

Contact us

If you would like to contact ECF please email your enquiry to: earlychildhoodforum@yahoo.co.uk

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Welcome

This is the new website for the Early Childhood Forum (ECF), which brings together national organizations and professional associations in the early childhood sector for all young children from birth to seven. ECF exists to promote inclusion, challenge inequalities, debate issues, celebrate differences and develop consensus to champion high quality experiences for young children and their families.

News & Events

Labour Party Manifesto

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The Labour Party's education manifesto just published has many references to Early Education. To find out more please click the link below.

Download: Labour_Party_Education_Manifesto_2018.pdf

TACTYC 40th Anniversary Conference

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This conference will be held in Derby,  2 - 3 November. Please open attachment below for full details:

Download: TACTYC-EXTERNAL.pdf

Phonics Screening Test

Professor Margaret Clark OBE has written a paper on the intended and unintended effects of the Phonics Screening Test in the EY classroom (England) in the Education Journal 349.

UPDATE
Professor Clark has had two further articles published in the Education Journal (nos. 351 and 352) where HMG's evidence supporting its phonics screening is found severely wanting...

Download: EJ349_Phonics_Screening.pdf

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