
Packed lunches: I just want the right to say no!
Do you want the right to ban packed lunches from your setting because of Health & Safety concerns? The recent legal challenge to the Early Years in February, was…
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Do you want the right to ban packed lunches from your setting because of Health & Safety concerns? The recent legal challenge to the Early Years in February, was…
What We Learned from the Nursery World Webinar The Governments policy to expand “childcare” for children from 9 months by funding 30 hours ECEC is driving demand and anxiety in…
Welcome Nadhim Zahawi, the latest in a long line of Childcare Ministers. So let’s imagine we are going to have the perfect interview with the newest Minister. The sector…
Every year, there is one present that exceeds all expectation and this year one lovely friend surpassed herself. She provided me with the antidote to the annual setting of New…
Happy Christmas lovely people who bravely entered the Big Blogland House during 2017. Thank you all for bothering to read my blogs throughout 2017. I hope they brought…
Armed with some tea and a KitKat, I sat down to read the new Ofsted Report Bold Beginnings. As a child, I often…
The common perception about those of us working with children is that we are nice but dim and we spend our time just playing. Nothing could be further from the…
”What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation.” Cicero Five years ago, in August 2012, I wrote my…
Dear Mr Goodwill Last week, as I watched the debate on thirty hours “free childcare” initiated by Ruth George MP sitting on…
On the 29 August three LEYF managers and I boarded a luxury Easyjet to attend the EECERA Conference in Bologna. Any of you who are kind enough to read my…
I do not subscribe to the L’Oreal line ”because you are worth it”. I reckon you have to earn that accolade. But at last weekend’s…
I enjoy Desert Island Discs especially if I have been up long enough to have started doing something useful like baking. This week, I caught the words…
I am looking forward to the London OBC on the 19th of September at 2pm hosted by Bain London, 40 The Strand,…
On Friday 4th August at LEYF, we had our first conference in three years. We were joined by 450 staff who all came to catch up and reconnect whilst enjoying…