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Consultation on EYFS Reforms and the implications for arts and culture

Consultation on EYFS Reforms and the implications for arts and culture

The proposed reforms to the EYFS seem to be more prescriptive than before and, in Expressive Arts and Design, limited to developing arts skills as opposed to children’s broader cultural and creative development. Ruth Churchill Dower discusses how the EYFS has been designed and how the reforms could go further to help promote creative, emotional and social attunement, celebrate multiple cultural identities, and better reflect the contemporary and diverse home learning contexts children are growing up in.