Roles and Responsibilities 

Local Education Authorities

• To ensure that all practitioners responsible for the completion of the EYFS Profiles take part in moderation activities at least once annually
• To appoint moderators with appropriate EYFS experience to secure consistent standards in assessment judgements.
• To ensure that the moderators are trained and participate regularly in LA & cross-LA moderation activities and have a good understanding of how to promote progress within the EYFS profile and ease transition to key stage 1.
• To ensure that all settings are visited regularly as part of a cycle of moderation visits by an LA moderator and that settings with identified problems or other particular circumstances are visited more frequently. LA’s should have a view of what constitutes quality in the EYFS and have systems for auditing this.
• To notify the Headteacher/manager of settings of whether (or not) EYFS profile assessments are being carried out in accordance with the requirements, after the moderation visit.

Where the moderator judges that the assessment is not in line with the exemplification standards, to require the Headteacher/manager to arrange for practitioners to participate in further training/moderation activities and to reconsider their assessments as advised by the moderator.

Responsibilities of Headteachers and Governing Bodies

Headteachers/managers and governing bodies have overall responsibility for implementing the statutory regulations for the EYFS profile. The specific responsibilities include:

• Quality insuring EYFS profile data before submitting it to the local authority
• Arranging for practitioners responsible for the completion of EYFS profiles to take part in LA moderation activities at least once annually
• Permitting the moderator to enter the premises at all reasonable times to carry out moderation visits
• Meeting reasonable requests from the moderator to amend assessments and for practitioners to take part in further training/ moderation activities.
• Arranging for moderation within the school or setting
• Ensuring practitioners involved in making assessments have adequate opportunities to become familiar with best practice. The opportunities may involve:
• Attendance at training courses
• Visits by moderators to schools
• Moderation meetings within settings
• Moderation meetings with practitioners from other settings
  

Responsibilities of Practitioners

Practitioners will have the responsibility of ensuring consistency and accuracy of their EYFS profile assessments through:

• Participating in internal moderation with practitioners in their own school/setting
• Attendance at implementation and moderation training where appropriate
• Attendance at moderation events at least once annually