Child poverty is back on the agenda. New reports highlight how we have made no progress improving...
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Back to blogDouble Standards or Just Don’t Care?
The world is full of contradictions and here is a BIG one. I recently read in the...
Chancellor Sunak: Be Brave and Invest in the Future By Starting with the Early Years
The other night I was watching my new late-night Netflix addiction, How to Get Away With Murder....
Margaret Horn 2016 : The London Childcare Challenge
[caption id="attachment_3804" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Margaret Horn[/caption] Every year during the November Global Enterprise Fortnight we host the...
Ofsted has discovered Child Poverty
“If we get the early years right, we pave the way for a lifetime of achievement. If...
I’m Alright, Jack
Last Thursday was a day of momentous historical significance. It may be linked but the weather also...
A Promise of 30 Hours Free Childcare heralds the Big Childcare Conversation
The Government made childcare a central component of its election manifesto. Mr Cameron insists that his Government...
Early Childhood Care and Education must become a Global Issue
This week had an international flavour not because I was travelling to faraway places (my next trip...
First Thoughts on June’s #EYManifesto : Let’s start the Next Big Conversation
We have just had the party conferences and watched as each party started to position itself in...
Fly Me To the Moon….’Dunoon!’
It was a good omen when we were told our plane to Glasgow was a long haul...
The Power of Good Old Fashioned Care: Love, Chat and Adele
A few weeks ago Wave Trust in partnership with the DfE published its report Conception to Age 2...
Asking Robin Van Persie to kick the childcare football straight into the Equalities net
Childcare is flavour of the week and quickly becoming a political football. I wish we had an...