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Using a multi-generational approach to reach into our communities
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Blogs
- Tuesday, November 19, 2019 | CYP Now
What do we mean by multi-generational practice? Here at LEYF we are now very clear. It is how we ensure our nurseries are active community catalysts.
A letter to Boris
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Blogs
- Friday, December 20, 2019 | CYP Now
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 will be occupying your mind such as Brexit, I wish to be a bit parochial and draw your attention to the world of early years.
A wish for wellness in 2022
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Blogs
- Tuesday, January 4, 2022 | CYP Now
2022 has finally arrived and it is also day five of my COVID isolation. I know I am nearly better because the world doesn’t feel like a permanent menopausal hot flush and I can now sleep with two pillows instead to five.
Time to wake up and smell childcare staffing crisis, Mr Chancellor
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Blogs
- Monday, April 11, 2022 | CYP Now
Unless, you are joining Sleeping Beauty and dozing off for 100 years waiting for the Chancellor to wake you up with news of a generous recovery fund, you will know that this is just a fairy story or wishful thinking.
A perfect storm for families and childcare?
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Blogs
- Thursday, May 19, 2022 | CYP Now
The cost-of-living crisis combines significant challenges for household budgets and for businesses’ finances alike.
Not everything is countable but early education outcomes are
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Blogs
- Thursday, April 6, 2023 | CYP Now
This week we spoke to a wide community of professionals concerned with evidence, impact, data, and evaluation at the Children and Young People Now conference in London.
Celebrating apprentices in the early years
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Blogs
- Monday, February 26, 2024 | CYP Now
I love apprentices… especially the LEYF apprentices. They are the next generation of early years teachers and, in my experience, they are amongst some of the best new talent we have across the whole sector.
What has prison got to do with early years?
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Blogs
- Monday, March 11, 2024 | CYP Now
Many of you will have heard me say that the early years is a highly political space. We find ourselves addressing poverty, social services, education and housing and now I find myself within the social justice space, in particular, prisons.
Tackling racism early in the early years
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Blogs
- Friday, June 12, 2020 | CYP Now
It was 1990 and the Children Act (1989) was starting to be implemented.
2020: The year of living dangerously
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Blogs
- Monday, December 14, 2020 | CYP Now
2020, the year of living dangerously and the year of lockdown.
Do multi academies exist in pre-school learning?
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Blogs
- Friday, April 30, 2021 | CYP Now
So, the Secretary of State, Gavin Williamson has signalled his vision that more and more schools should become not only academies but form multi-academy trusts.
Will the Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood raise the status of the early years?
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Blogs
- Tuesday, June 22, 2021 | CYP Now
On Friday 18 June, The Duchess of Cambridge launched the Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood.
Standing tall for early years by being sustainable
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Blogs
- Wednesday, July 14, 2021 | CYP Now
Writing a book in the middle of the pandemic was not on the to do list but that was exactly what my colleague, Nick Corlett and I found ourselves doing.
Six Steps to Influencing and Creating a Strong Voice for Children
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Blogs
- Monday, July 24, 2017 | CYP Now