Read the latest news and updates from our CEO and the wider LEYF team.
Minister for Early Education, Stephen Morgan, visits LEYF Soho Nursery and Pre-School to meet the men working in childcare as the government ramps up efforts to grow and diversify the early years workforce.
Risky Play or Not Risky Play – That is the Question! Ellen Sandseter is a well-known professor at Queen Maud University College for Early Childhood Education in Trondheim, Norway…
We are all aware that the cost of childcare is too expensive for many parents. Yet the Government says it…
I have long rejected beginning the New Year with a hangover, and am even less keen to create a bunch of resolutions that rarely survive the month of January, let alone…
As we rush to the end of a very speedy 2012, I thought I would review the year through the lenses of my 42 blogs. From…
Last week Ofsted produced its Annual Report, the first from her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Education, Children Services and Skills, Sir Michael Wilshaw. It…
Hurrah, the press finally have something new to focus on now the Duchess is having a Royal Baby. Poor old Kate, suffering not just morning sickness but…
The Margaret Horn Big Conversation happened last week on Social Enterprise…
What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation. Cicero Was it fortuitous or bad timing…
An invitation to speak at the Early Arts UnConference at the MAC in Birmingham led to my reflecting back on why I started to investigate cultural capital…
Friday saw another fantastic LEYF Staff Conference, once again successfully managed with great aplomb. Like another Chocolate Orange segment…
Every year we hold our annual LEYF conference when we celebrate our achievements over the past 12 months and present our plans…
Action research at LEYF is a key aspect of how we ensure quality. It’s all about asking questions of ourselves and checking how we can do things better to give children…
I went to the Conservative Conference because I was invited to speak at a couple of Fringe events. Having done a day and a half at the…
