Last week, I went on a "pedajolly" to a conference in Birmingham with two colleagues - Ben who leads the LEYF Training Academy and Jean who manages a super three times "outstanding" nursery in Bayswater.
Rumour has it the former early years minister, and now prime minister, Liz Truss is considering ditching the recently proposed tweaks to adult: child ratios and axing them altogether.
In July I wrote a blog calling parents, staff and colleagues to get their heads around the ratio debate and understand why reducing ratios are bad for children, bad for staff and will not reduce fees to parents.
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 necessary”. Why? Because less than four per cent of the early years sector are male.
The general election illustrated how neglected and distanced from opportunity and investment the Midlands and North felt compared to elsewhere in the country.