September Ready Checklist

On 1 September 2026, three statutory documents change at once for UK early years settings: the EYFS framework, Ofsted's inspection toolkit, and KCSIE. Reading the changes after they land and scrambling to update policies and procedures under pressure isn't an easy job. We've created a checklist that gets ahead of that.

Each of the seven jobs is anchored to the exact paragraph in the published documents that's changed, so you're never working from a summary of a summary.

Open any item and you'll see three things:

• What the wording actually says

• What it means for daily practice in your setting

• What an inspector will expect to see as evidence
  

This matters most if you haven't reviewed your policies since before the 2025 versions took effect.

Built to be worked through now, before the changes take effect on 1 September, not scrambled through in the last week of August. Nothing here is guesswork. It's generated straight from the source documents, dated and version-controlled, so you know exactly what you're working from.

Download it once, save it, and work through it whenever suits or share it with your team so everyone's looking at the same seven jobs. this is the one i did already