Returning to Nursery on 1st June
When we were told by the Prime Minster on the 10th May that we would be able to open on the 1st of June we began to plan how we…
LEYF CEO Blog and Podcast by Dr June O’Sullivan OBE
Read the latest news and updates from our CEO and the wider LEYF team.
Can Nurseries Deliver the 4th Emergency Service and Remain Sustainable?
Perhaps when Boris has his new baby and needs childcare he will finally begin to realise what we do as a sector an how we operate as an essential business.
Breakfast with The Duchess
We all know that the Tiger comes to Tea but we have never had a Duchess come to Breakfast. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6hzbLzcprE The Duchess of Cambridge lightened up our…
The Male Only Apprentice Group
Can we do this? Will we break the law? The HR Director rolled his eyes and said Ohhhhh, let me double check! I said “Make it happen, It is hugely…
A Letter to Boris
Dear Prime Minister Welcome, and I wish good fortune as you build the right team around you to deliver your election promises. While I realise there are big issues that…
Christmas Advent Blog – December 11th
Continuing with the Christmas Advent tradition, on day eleven of Christmas Advent 2019 let’s reflect on what the pedagogy looks like in practice? Read my recent post reflecting on pedagogy…
Christmas Advent Blog – The Birmingham Pedajolly on the Pedagogy Fun Train
Last week I went on a Pedajolly to Birmingham to the Nursery World Conference with two colleagues. Ben who leads the LEYF Training Academy and Jean who manages a…
Can Early Years be the Bridge to Helping Combat Loneliness and Isolation in Local Communities?
“Educating the mind without educating the heart is not an education at all” An invitation to the annual Margaret Horn Debate. Over ten years ago, we started the annual…
Why It’s Worth the Effort of Bringing Your Practice to a Research Conference
Four LEYF staff recently attended the annual EECERA conference. This year it was held in the friendly hot and very humid city of Thessaloniki, a city suffering from the…
Should there be more Social Enterprises in Childcare?
I operate in two worlds; Early Years and Social Enterprise. Every now and then they converge, and I find myself invited to a most unusual or unexpected event. That happened…
Ready, Steady: The New Education Inspection Framework has Arrived
It was the longest and largest consultation Ofsted has ever undertaken (four months with 100 focus groups and 250 pilots across the sector) and consequently 15,000 people replied. Lesson to…
Whatever happened to lifelong learning?
The debate about what is education continues unabated. The DfE annoyed and baffled many last month when they announced that they did not advocate using the word learning because…