LEYF News and CEO Blog

For those wonderfully supportive people who follow this blog, you may have noticed a gap in production; this is because I have been staying in the Shropshire…

This week we received the official recommendations from the Review of the Early Years Foundation Stage led by Dame Clare Tickell.  It’s quite a…

There is much talk at the moment about the importance of measurement, including a reference to it in many of the speeches I listened to during the…

I have learned that if I am to truly avoid all contact with the world of work, then I need to go abroad without a phone or internet access.  To…

What would Lord Shaftsbury, Mary Carpenter or Dr Barnardo make of the ongoing political battle of what to cut and what to save? …

This has been an interesting week or so for the sector… Firstly, Graham Allen MP (who spoke with such conviction about Early Intervention at our annual…

We are already halfway through January, having returned from a long break to the order and pattern that work gives us. We have cheerily greeted everyone with a Happy New…

The year is once again fast drawing to a close. Each one seems to go by faster and faster; and this one especially was twelve months at quick march time.

This week I overheard a member of staff commenting on my blog.  She had just begun to read it and was surprised at just how much it told her about…

I have had the most interesting week. Despite the weather and incompetent overground trains trying to keep me at home, the 209…

Our 4th Annual Margaret Horn Lecture last Thursday evening went off with a bang. We were oversubscribed which raised the thorny question of health and safety and…

The Daycare Trust Conference yesterday was the site of another announcement by our new Minister Sarah Teather MP. With growing confidence and assurance, she wrapped…