Cover -- Contents -- Why is the environment important in supporting children's learning? -- What is an enabling environment in the early years? -- Why is the environment so important? -- The Early Years Foundation Stage -- How the other principles of the EYFS link to the Enabling Environment -- Auditing your setting's current provision -- The environment and the Self Evaluation Form -- Audit of current provision -- General learning environment checklist -- Indoor environment checklist -- Outdoor environment checklist -- Restricted or no outdoor space checklist -- Equality of opportunity checklist -- Diversity checklist -- Policies and procedures checklist -- SWOT analysis -- Examples from real settings -- The indoor environment -- An environment that meets each child's basic needs -- Utilising space -- Maximising your corridors -- Storage -- Health and safety -- Displays -- Planned and unplanned changes to the environment -- Supporting parents to develop enabling home environments -- The six areas of learning indoors -- The outdoor environment -- Freedom and space -- Staff deployment and ratios -- The weather -- Accessibility -- Promoting outdoor play to staff and parents -- Storage -- Risk taking and safety -- Small outdoor space -- No outdoor space -- Sustainability -- Boundaries -- Large play equipment -- Dens -- Outdoor role play -- Babies outdoors -- The six areas of learning outdoors -- The emotional environment -- Why focus on the emotional environment? -- Welcomes -- Meet and greet -- Photographs and names -- Staff and key workers -- Supporting positive behaviour -- Reflecting diversity -- Making choices and following interests -- Valuing the children -- Personal space -- Celebrating effort and achievement -- Routines -- Developing independence -- Supporting feelings -- Developing the environment -- Making changes -- Skills audit.

Researching other settings -- Sample policies and procedures -- Free flow policy -- The learning environment policy -- Risk assessments -- Books and websites -- Acknowledgements.