Double Standards or Just Don’t Care?
The world is full of contradictions and here is a BIG one. I recently read in the Financial Times that the global management consultants, McKinsey & Company earned a…
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The world is full of contradictions and here is a BIG one. I recently read in the Financial Times that the global management consultants, McKinsey & Company earned a…
It was an OBC with a difference. We didn’t have to find a room and a suitable time and lots of refreshments, we zoomed straight into everyone’s homes in nearly…
The other night I was watching my new late-night Netflix addiction, How to Get Away With Murder. I have reached Series 5 where the main protagonist, Annaliese Keating is…
To mark Empathy Day (9 June), we are proud to be launching our Standing Tall for Early Years campaign – with a call for ALL Early Years settings across…
When we were told by the Prime Minster on the 10th May that we would be able to open on the 1st of June we began to plan how we…
On the 23rd March, Boris Johnson put us in to lockdown to help address the unknown outcomes from the coronavirus (COVID-19). It was a sombre day and most of us…
The Covid -19 pandemic has introduced us to some new words such as furlough and serology which describe specific action. But alongside those real words we have also been introduced…
On Friday night, the DfE produced the guidance on furlough and funded children. A rather last-minute announcement when so many have prepared to upload their data onto the HMRC…
Perhaps when Boris has his new baby and needs childcare he will finally begin to realise what we do as a sector an how we operate as an essential business.
Who would have anticipated that a virus we had never heard of could take us from being Cinderella to becoming the 4th Emergency Service? The Coronavirus has crept up…
Does our Home Secretary need to be quite so offensive to the 319,000 staff who provide Early Childhood Education and Childcare to parents every day to enable them to work…
In October, one of the LEYF managers slept out to raise awareness about homelessness. Her observations prompted this blog. I felt vulnerable and rather lonely in the early hours…