Safer Sleep: Understanding the EYFS 2026 Changes
Understand the latest safer sleep requirements, reduce risks, and confidently implement the updated EYFS expectations in your setting.
Perfect for all early years professionals caring for babies and young children.
Course Details
✓ Understand the new EYFS 2026 safer sleep requirements.
✓ Identify safe sleep equipment and when it should be used.
✓ Create safe sleep environments that reduce unnecessary risks.
✓ Implement effective supervision and monitoring procedures.
✓ Recognise unsafe sleep practices and respond appropriately.
✓ Work confidently with parents to promote consistent safer sleep practices.
Module 1: Introduction to Safer Sleep
- Why safer sleep matters
- Understanding the EYFS 2026 changes
- Your role in protecting babies
Module 2: EYFS 2026 Legal Requirements
- New statutory expectations
- Provider responsibilities
- Policies and procedures
- Meeting inspection requirements
Module 3: Sleep Equipment and Safe Sleep Items
- Appropriate cots and mattresses
- Sleep bags and bedding
- Sleep positioning
- Equipment safety checks
Module 4: Creating a Safe Sleep Environment
- Room temperature
- Safe sleeping spaces
- Environmental hazards
- Daily safe sleep routines
Module 5: Supervision and Monitoring
- Active monitoring expectations
- Recording sleep checks
- Responding to concerns
- Maintaining safe practice
Module 6: Unsafe Practices and Risk Awareness
- Common unsafe sleep practices
- Recognising hazards
- Reducing preventable risks
- Learning from incidents
Module 7: Working with Parents
- Communicating safer sleep guidance
- Supporting consistent practice
- Sharing information sensitively
- Building positive parent partnerships
👶 Nursery Practitioners
🏡 Childminders
⭐ Room Leaders
👩💼 Nursery Managers
🎓 Apprentices and Students
👶 Anyone caring for babies and young children in an early years setting.