On Friday 18th June, The Duchess of Cambridge launched the Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood. It...
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Back to blogDoing What’s Best for the Health of our Nation and the Health of our Sector
The Covid-19 pandemic lockdown is posing many philosophical questions. Is the virus a response to our wasteful...
When is an entitlement not an entitlement? When it’s 30 Hours Childcare!
A previous election manifesto addition was to promise parents 30 hours of free childcare. This is an...
An Oscar Speech for Early Years Practitioners
Last week I went to friend’s wedding and when it came to the speeches, she stood up...
Welcome to the Institute of Early Years: A Global Portal Connecting EY Colleagues – Help us shape it to meet your interests
For the past year, a small group of us have been mulling over how to create an...
A Thank You Letter to Mr Clegg
Dear Mr Clegg, Thank you for listening to us about the potential changes to the ratios. I...
An inspector calls… and the sector arrives to listen and ponder.
On Friday morning I traipsed up to Camden to hear Sir Michael Wilshaw, Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector...
A swan and a lark: why the Government’s new childcare report may be the stone that kills both birds
The Government’s new childcare report was launched last week by Elizabeth Truss MP Parliamentary Under-Secretary for State (education and...
Wearing a red coat to a blue Conference.
I went to the Conservative Conference because I was invited to speak at a couple of Fringe...
Conference talk: more courage and less cliché for two-year-old childcare please
The Conference season is upon us, and so the launch of ideas for manifestos rain down upon...
A LEYF approach to Men in Childcare: not quite as quick as saying Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.
Not so long ago, David Stevens, Manager of the Angel Nursery, which for a while had 4...
Read your two year-old a bedtime story, and start to slowly peel off the label of disadvantage before it sticks
This week has just disappeared, and that is partly because I had meetings every evening. I was...