
Childcare Expansion: Promise or Mirage?
Yesterday, amid much fanfare, the government announced the start of the expansion of funded childcare hours. It may sound like a win for parents but the reality is far less…
August 14th 2017
What do you do when you want to have the best cakes to eat at the annual LEYF Conference?
You ask the chefs to bake them!
What do you get?
The delight of tasting them all!
I have been an advocate for nursery chefs for a very long time. A good chef is part of the team. They know the children and get great pleasure from providing the children with tasty meals as well as other activities! That’s why we wrote the Level 2 Professional Cooking, a programme that is accredited by Cache and is ready for delivery.
It’s true that it would be far more attractive if it was approved on the National Apprentice Framework. However, if getting a sensible action from idea to policy implementation was easy we would have certainly delivered a very cost effective and child focused National Early Years strategy by now! How many of us are still reeling from the whole A to C debacle?! In fact if we were to bake an Early Years cake, what ingredients would you add ? Here is my starter and lets create the great British Early Years bake Off!
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