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Back to blogLEYF Launches NEW Level 4 Sustainability Qualification for Early Childhood Education
During lockdown last year, I began to think a lot more about the future. There was so...
Nets, Networks and Networking to Create Collective Impact
This week I visited the West Country to speak to a group of people working or interested...
Stonehenge, Farms and Icebergs: Developing Successful Growth Strategies
I am rarely found up at 6am on a Saturday unless I am on my way back...
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...
Déjà vu, all over again.
I am a nervous passenger generally, but my anxiety rises to a whole new level when we...
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...
Early Years, Dragons and Dolly Parton… or how bankers became our new best friends
The last few weeks have been a bit of an intellectual whirlwind, which always gets me really...
Big society grants: plus ça change…
I have learned that if I am to truly avoid all contact with the world of work,...
Down on the farm, cultivating an organic approach to Big Society
Alongside the delight of being Chief Executive of LEYF, I am also chair of Paddington Farm Trust. ...
A Call to Arms: Save Our Children’s Centres
We are already halfway through January, having returned from a long break to the order and pattern...