
An Invitation to Debate a Change to the Ratio of Staff Qualifications with Ofsted
The recruitment and retention issue continues to drag us down and there is no immediate end in sight. Worse still, I doubt if Liz Truss, the darling of the Tories,…
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The recruitment and retention issue continues to drag us down and there is no immediate end in sight. Worse still, I doubt if Liz Truss, the darling of the Tories,…
A sober outlook The mood across the Early Years sector seems to be suggesting that recruiting and retaining staff is one of our biggest challenges. It was certainly the biggest…
Continuing with the Christmas Advent tradition, on day nineteen of Christmas Advent 2019 let’s reflect on volunteering and why it is good for social purpose… https://leyf.org.uk/volunteering-is-good-for-our-social-purpose/…
Dear Prime Minister Welcome and I wish good fortune as you build the right team around you to deliver your election promises. While I realise there are big issues…
Continuing with the Christmas Advent tradition, on day Seventeen of Christmas Advent 2019 let’s reflect on how important it is for all of us in the Early Years sector to…
Continuing with the Christmas Advent tradition, on day Sixteen of Christmas Advent 2019 let’s reflect on Social Enterprise childcare, should there be more?… https://leyf.org.uk/should-there-be-more-social-enterprises-in-childcare/ …
Continuing with the Christmas Advent tradition, on day fifteen of Christmas Advent 2019 let’s reflect on the FIRST EVER early years chef academy!!!… https://leyf.org.uk/the-launch-of-the-first-early-years-chef-academy/…
Continuing with the Christmas Advent tradition, on day fourteen of Christmas Advent 2019 let’s reflect on child poverty… https://leyf.org.uk/child-poverty-affects-us-all-and-that-means-you/…
Continuing with the Christmas Advent tradition, on day thirteen of Christmas Advent 2019 let’s reflect on the new Education Inspection Framework (EIF)… https://leyf.org.uk/ready-steady-the-new-education-inspection-framework-has-arrived/…
Continuing with the Christmas Advent tradition, on day twelve of Christmas Advent 2019 let’s reflect on whatever happened to life long learning?… https://leyf.org.uk/whatever-happened-to-lifelong-learning/…
Continuing with the Christmas Advent tradition, on day eleven of Christmas Advent 2019 let’s reflect on what the pedagogy looks like in practice? https://leyf.org.uk/christmas-advent-blog-the-birmingham-pedajolly-on-the-pedagogy-fun-train/ June and Ben our…
Continuing with the Christmas Advent tradition, on day ten of Christmas Advent 2019 let’s reflect on what is cultural capital? Now that Ofsted has introduced the concept into the…
Last week I went on a Pedajolly to Birmingham to the Nursery World Conference with two colleagues. Ben who leads the LEYF Training Academy and Jean who…
Continuing with the Christmas Advent tradition, on day eight of Christmas Advent 2019 let’s reflect on the power of books… https://leyf.org.uk/enjoy-books-on-world-book-day-dont-worry-too-much-about-dressing-up/…