Come and Celebrate ‘Creative Connections’ at our Event this Thursday

Some weeks are pretty gloomy but this one had some really lovely highlights. The first was midweek...

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...

The delayed response to More Great Childcare (or ‘More Great Childcages’ as coined by Penny Tassoni) filled me with...

A few weeks ago Wave Trust in partnership with the DfE published its report Conception to Age 2...

Friday saw another fantastic LEYF Staff Conference, once again successfully managed with great aplomb. Like another Chocolate Orange...

When the weather is raining and grey, I often like to go to see a film in...

I am a nervous passenger generally, but my anxiety rises to a whole new level when we...

Two ever-popular and increasingly connected topics of debate, child poverty and social mobility have been high on my...

This week the chancellor announced that the government will extend the free entitlement of 15 hours of nursery education to every...

I have not written a blog for a week because some of you said you could not...

This week has been rather a fest of networking, the most noteworthy of which was one evening...

This week I went to visit Dara Hogan at Fledglings Nurseries, part of An Cosán, a community organisation...