Explaining the legal status and principles of the relevant early years framework?

[Edensworld]

Help please; I'm probably one of the last to be completing the Children and young people's workforce L 3. I work as a child minder so peer support is pretty much non existent, I'm stuck on this question:

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

This is what I have put so far:

The Statutory framework for the Early Years Foundation stage is the legal requirement set out in the 2006 Children’s act, that being achieving the five outcomes from ‘Every Child Matters; stay safe, be healthy, enjoy and achieve, make a positive contribution and achieve economic wellbeing.
The EYFS frame work also lays down the safeguarding and welfare requirements also part of the 2006 Children’s act; these are the minimum legal requirements that childcare providers must meet.
The guide ‘Development Matters; can be used in conjunction to support the principles in the EYFS. There are four themes around this:
• A unique child.
• Positive relationships.
• Enabling environments.
• Learning and development.

Not sure what is meant by' how national and local guidance materials are used in settings'
Any guidance is much appreciated x

[Ruthierhyme]

Hi welcome to the site. It reads nicely :)

The EYFS aim isn't to achieve the outcomes of ECM though xx

You can use the ECM outcomes and match them to your practice. Doing that will enable you to explain your rationale & show/demonstrate the reasoning that underpins everything you do ie. you want children in your care to stay safe, be healthy, enjoy and achieve, make a positive contribution and achieve economic well-being.

The Early Years Foundation Stage 2014 is a developmental and a learning framework. It has three sections, and each setting will put those sections into practice in its very own way.

Ensuring a setting's practice meets the regulations contained in the EYFS framework is work undertaken by OFSTED who use inspection criteria to evidence a setting's compliance. Childminding and childcare on gov.uk

You'll need to explain how your setting uses the EYFS and any materials issued by the government nationally eg. EY outcomes / progress check guidance and locally if your local authority council provide you with anything eg. do they recommend development matters or their own developmental formats, do they want you to develop a British values policy - linking eyfs to British values? ..

Hth xx