PD Guidance Document

The PD Guidance Document has been developed in partnership with Early Years leads from across Greater Manchester and aims to:

To assist the workforce, particularly those in leadership and management roles working across the Early Years system, to have a clear vision of best practice, in supporting physical development and physical activity for 0–5-year-olds.
To assist Commissioners to understand the range of interventions and services that could be offered based on evidence, both local and national to help inform local pathway development.
To provide consistency in messaging around physical development in Early Childhood, to develop a shared understanding of its meaning and identify how the Early Years workforce and families can support it.
To outline the theoretical/practice frameworks and key principles that underpin best practice.
To help the Early Years’s workforce to identify and respond to children’s physical development needs and differences and understand the interventions and services available.