Some weeks are pretty gloomy but this one had some really lovely highlights. The first was midweek...
Tag: Early Intervention
Back to blogFirst 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...
More Great Childcare? Don’t think so…
The delayed response to More Great Childcare (or ‘More Great Childcages’ as coined by Penny Tassoni) filled me with...
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...
LEYF Magic, coming to a nursery near you soon.
Friday saw another fantastic LEYF Staff Conference, once again successfully managed with great aplomb. Like another Chocolate Orange...
The Angels’ Share: a film that turns whiskey into a political metaphor. Drink Up!
When the weather is raining and grey, I often like to go to see a film in...
Déjà vu, all over again.
I am a nervous passenger generally, but my anxiety rises to a whole new level when we...
Cultural capital. The secret ingredient at the heart of effective early intervention.
Two ever-popular and increasingly connected topics of debate, child poverty and social mobility have been high on my...
Why quality is criticial to ensure the ‘twoness of twos’
This week the chancellor announced that the government will extend the free entitlement of 15 hours of nursery education to every...
The next round of applause is on me…
I have not written a blog for a week because some of you said you could not...
Collecting Ministers like ‘Top Trumps’
This week has been rather a fest of networking, the most noteworthy of which was one evening...
Childhood futures in Dublin’s fair city
This week I went to visit Dara Hogan at Fledglings Nurseries, part of An Cosán, a community organisation...