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,…
LEYF News
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Tackling the Early Years Recruitment Crisis Head On
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…
Christmas Advent Blog – December 19th
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/…
A Letter to Boris
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…
Christmas Advent Blog – December 17th
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…
Christmas Advent Blog – December 16th
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/ …
Christmas Advent Blog – December 15th
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/…
Christmas Advent Blog – December 14th
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/…
Christmas Advent Blog – December 13th
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/…
Christmas Advent Blog – December 12th
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/…
Christmas Advent Blog – December 11th
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…
Christmas Advent Blog – December 10th
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…
Christmas Advent Blog – The Birmingham Pedajolly on the Pedagogy Fun Train
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…
Christmas Advent Blog – December 8th
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/…