This has been an interesting week or so for the sector... Firstly, Graham Allen MP (who spoke...
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...
Sing a song of sixpence
The year is once again fast drawing to a close. Each one seems to go by faster...
The Social Enterprise Tea Party
This week I overheard a member of staff commenting on my blog. She had just begun to...
Ideas to make your head spin in Bethnal Green
I have had the most interesting week. Despite the weather and incompetent overground trains trying to keep...
Sense of humour goes a long way
There was a book reviewed in Charity Times recently called The Art of Raising Money by Ian Bruce...
Let’s stave off a tsunami of social disaster
Our 4th Annual Margaret Horn Lecture last Thursday evening went off with a bang. We were oversubscribed...
Colleagues, be careful what you wish for…
The Daycare Trust Conference yesterday was the site of another announcement by our new Minister Sarah Teather...
Can we risk early intervention becoming a cliché ?
Global Entrepreneurship Week kicks off on Monday. Who cares you say? Well, we do - particularly since...
Trust and leadership
It’s a shocking thing to discover that a woman once trusted as a reliable and caring nursery...
Comprehending spending reviews
So it finally happened. And as predicted, the Comprehensive Spending Review proved little more than a combination...
Welcome and please join us, as we boldly go…
After much debate, discussion and procrastination, we have finally dipped our toes into the wild world of online...