Doing 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...

Last week I went to friend’s wedding and when it came to the speeches, she stood up...

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

Dear Mr Clegg, Thank you for listening to us about the potential changes to the ratios. I...

On Friday morning I traipsed up to Camden to hear Sir Michael Wilshaw, Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector...

The Government’s new childcare report was launched last week by Elizabeth Truss MP Parliamentary Under-Secretary for State (education and...

I went to the Conservative Conference because I was invited to speak at a couple of Fringe...

The Conference season is upon us, and so the launch of ideas for manifestos rain down upon...

Not so long ago, David Stevens, Manager of the Angel Nursery, which for a while had 4...

This week has just disappeared, and that is partly because I had meetings every evening. I was...

You know you have grown up when you know the date of the budget, the Chancellor’s name...