Homelessness

In October, one of the LEYF managers slept out to raise awareness about homelessness. Her observations prompted...

Can Early Years be the Bridge to Helping Combat Loneliness and Isolation in Local Communities?

“Educating the mind without educating the heart is not an education at all" An invitation to the...

About a year ago, the Government suggested that it might need to refresh the EYFS and the...

I rarely say no to an invitation to speak about Early Years in Ireland, and this weekend...

There is no poverty in the UK I hear you cry. Really? Let’s start by looking at...

It was the longest and largest consultation Ofsted has ever undertaken (four months with 100 focus groups...

To be honest, cultural capital is not the usual conversation piece. But it is both a conscious...

I arrived on Friday evening (15 March) in a wet Bath for the Firm Foundations Conference. A...

Everything starts somewhere, and as the notices for International Women’s Day (IWD) started to proliferate, I wondered...

Ofsted has a strategic objective to be a force for improvement through intelligent, responsible and focused inspection...

I am not always great at taking my own advice, which in this case is to take...

The Report by the Education Policy Institute (EPI), raises the self-same issues which have been of concern...