I arrived on Friday evening in a wet Bath for the Firm Foundations Conference. A wet bath was also just perfect metaphor for my life at the moment! I am currently living without a bathroom while my husband replaces our current bathroom, rebuilding the walls, plasters and doing inexplicable things with noggins, sistering and floorboards. To cap it all my hotel was opposite the BathStore!
The Conference was called Joining the Dots #firmfoundations organised by the inimitable Sue Cowley.
Hosted in the beautiful setting of the University of Bath Spa.
I knew I was speaking after Neil Leitch CEO of the Early Years Alliance who is great to follow because he always sets out the state of the sector in a clear and well-informed way. He gave some startling and rather depressing statistics. I have chosen just two, one that shows the amount of funding we received is in inverse proportion to the benefit it has for children. The other is for those of us struggling with recruiting new capable and confident staff. Things are not going well.
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