LEYF News and CEO Blog

At the annual Adventures with Alice Pedagogy and Play Residential, I listened to Suzanne Zeedyck  speak passionately about the importance of connecting…

Time to Rethink Our Ageist Attitudes What happens when a crisis just becomes the way we live? It starts to describe the staffing shortage situation. It would seem…

Where are you going on holiday? Will it be too hot? A realistic question as Southern Europe burns. I chose the west of Ireland where a sliver of sunshine…

Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things Podcast Series Talking Early Years: What have Food Banks got to do with the Early Years?  This year, LEYF…

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…

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…

As a sector, we can sometimes come across as a bit split. Copyright Darren Fletcher Photography – Commissioned by The Sun This may be because we are part…

Thank you to those who came to the OBC on the 18th May. It was the ten-year anniversary of the #OBC and our first face to face meeting since…

Things continue to be difficult for the sector, and we seem to have few choices as to how we resolve the issues which all revolve around the recruitment…

In 2013, I set up the Ofsted Big Conversation #OBC because I was so dismayed at how our relationship had deteriorated with our regulator.  I was beyond angry at what…

Hurrah, the importance to invest in the Early Years has finally filtered deep into the Treasury and the Chancellor responded in the Budget. So that is the good bit, but…

A letter to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt