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...

If you are happy and you know it come to work

Given that January is the month when we have a collective “Blue Monday” and the highest number...

What is important about Thursday? Well, it’s the Chancellor’s autumn statement. I wonder whether he will...

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

DISCLAIMER:(!) I know that today is not my usual 'blog day' but we wanted to pass on...

For the past year, a small group of us have been mulling over how to create an...

We have just had the party conferences and watched as each party started to position itself in...

It was a good omen when we were told our plane to Glasgow was a long haul...

Yesterday I woke up late, nursing a heavy head; a combination of a rotten head cold, three...

On Friday, 50 lively people came to Marsham St, the headquarters of the London Early Years Foundation,...

The #OfstedBigConversation kicks off around the country on Friday. (more…)

Charles Handy identified three attributes, ‘difference, dedication and doggedness’ as the mark of successful entrepreneurs. He quoted...