How Early Years Chefs are making an impact on food poverty
Access to good, nutritious, and balanced meals is becoming more challenging for some families each week, affecting the poorest and most deprived families the hardest. This is not just me…
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Fighting education inequality in the Early Years through food waste
An innovative partnership with City Harvest is helping us to plug a gap in Government funding and provide extra hours in nursery for children in need who are excluded…
Talking Early Years: Celebrating 120 Years at LEYF
The Year That is 2023 – This year, we are proud to celebrate 120 years of LEYF. It’s been fascinating to reflect back on what has changed over…
Early Years settings are key to building children’s health – and their chefs can be the catalysts
Research shows that the experiences young children and babies have during their first five years has a long-term effect on their cognitive, emotional and physical development and their life…
Shaping Us Campaign – shining a light on Early Years
Ten years ago, the Princess of Wales started noticing that a poor Early Years’ experience was the common denominator across all the young people using the mental health charities she…
Child Poverty Affects Us All: Don’t Pretend It Has Nothing to Do with YOU
Child poverty is back on the agenda. New reports highlight how we have made no progress improving the number of children living in poverty and how the COVID-19 pandemic, has…
Talking Early Years with June O’Sullivan: In Conversation with C.J. Bowry
Please Sir, Can I Have Some Shoes? Growing up in a working-class family, the outlay on school shoes was always a concern. The annual purchase of a pair of plain…
Times of upheaval bring radical change and revolution. Is this the moment to change the direction of Early Years?
Every year we have the Margaret Horn Debate to introduce, explore and dispute ideas, policies and innovative practice. Consequently, we have debated a wonderful array of topics over the past…
Double Standards or Just Don’t Care?
The world is full of contradictions and here is a BIG one. I recently read in the Financial Times that the global management consultants, McKinsey & Company earned a…
Chancellor Sunak: Be Brave and Invest in the Future By Starting with the Early Years
The other night I was watching my new late-night Netflix addiction, How to Get Away With Murder. I have reached Series 5 where the main protagonist, Annaliese Keating is…
From Cinderella to the 4th Emergency Service
Who would have anticipated that a virus we had never heard of could take us from being Cinderella to becoming the 4th Emergency Service? The Coronavirus has crept up…
Volunteering is good for our social purpose
I am always happy to support staff who want to volunteer with organisations around the world especially when they are helping children. We have encouraged staff who wanted to use…