Perhaps when Boris has his new baby and needs childcare he will finally begin to realise what...
Category: Policy and Practice
Back to blogFrom Cinderella to the 4th Emergency Service
Who would have anticipated that a virus we had never heard of could take us from being...
What does it say about the value of care when low skills are aligned to low salaries?
Does our Home Secretary need to be quite so offensive to the 319,000 staff who provide Early...
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...
Don’t’s Dump the EYFS, Just Tweak it
About a year ago, the Government suggested that it might need to refresh the EYFS and the...
Stand Up With One Voice
I rarely say no to an invitation to speak about Early Years in Ireland, and this weekend...
Child Poverty Affects Us All… and that means YOU!
There is no poverty in the UK I hear you cry. Really? Let’s start by looking at...
Ready, Steady: The New Education Inspection Framework has Arrived
It was the longest and largest consultation Ofsted has ever undertaken (four months with 100 focus groups...
What is Cultural Capital?
To be honest, cultural capital is not the usual conversation piece. But it is both a conscious...
Going to Bath for a Bath
I arrived on Friday evening (15 March) in a wet Bath for the Firm Foundations Conference. A...
Happy International Women’s Day
Everything starts somewhere, and as the notices for International Women’s Day (IWD) started to proliferate, I wondered...