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What has prison got to do with early years?

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  • 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.

Celebrating apprentices in the early years

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  • 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.

Should social enterprise deliver public services?

    Blogs
  • Tuesday, February 13, 2024
    • | CYP Now
Social enterprises are driven by social justice and deliver a range of public services including health, social care, children, services, education, homelessness, housing, domestic abuse, public health, leisure, culture, employment, training, transport, criminal justice across local, central government and the NHS.

What does mental health look like for a small child?

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  • Monday, November 6, 2023
    • | CYP Now
As a former psychiatric nurse who trained and worked at the Maudsley Hospital, I realised quickly that mental health was the Cinderella service of the NHS. Years later, I joined the Cinderella service of the education service, otherwise known as the early years.

Chefs to the rescue

    Blogs
  • Tuesday, October 10, 2023
    • | CYP Now
A healthy population is the foundation of a strong and thriving economy, and that begins with our children.

The massive impact of health visits

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  • Monday, September 4, 2023
    • | CYP Now
At the annual Adventures with Alice Pedagogy and Play Residential, I listened to Suzanne Zeedyck speak passionately about the importance of connecting with babies. In particular, helping parents and Early Years staff understand the importance of this connection.

Time to rethink our ageist attitudes

    Blogs
  • Monday, August 14, 2023
    • | CYP Now
What happens when a crisis just becomes the way we live? It starts to describe the staffing shortage situation. It would seem after Covid thousands of people never returned to work. They simply vanished!

Join the London OBC 2023

    Blogs
  • Monday, April 24, 2023
    • | CYP Now
In 2013, I set up the Ofsted Big Conversation #OBC because I was so dismayed at how our relationship had deteriorated with our regulator.

Dear Chancellor

    Blogs
  • Tuesday, March 7, 2023
    • | CYP Now
Friday, 3rd of March marked Employee Appreciation Day. Many in the Early Years sector sent heartfelt thanks to staff for continuing to stay in their jobs and educate our youngest citizens.

The continuing saga of the childcare cost

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  • Friday, February 24, 2023
    • | CYP Now
We have been raising the issues of childcare funding for over 10 years. It has been so long, I am amazed at how patient I’ve remained – and I’m not usually that patient. I get an itch waiting in queues.

Engage in staff:child nursery ratio debate

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  • Monday, November 21, 2022
    • | CYP Now
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.

How to adjust ratios and maintain quality

    Blogs
  • Monday, October 17, 2022
    • | CYP Now
There is little doubt that the recruitment and retention issues facing the sector continue to cause concern and are impacting on the ability of more and more providers to meet the needs of children and parents.

Ratio revolution?

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  • Monday, October 10, 2022
    • | CYP Now
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.

The benefits of attending a research conference

    Blogs
  • Friday, September 9, 2022
    • | CYP Now
Every year I try and get LEYF staff to attend and present at the annual EECERA conference. I have been doing this since 2004 , although we have not attended every conference mostly because some places were a bit expensive for us and my conference savings pot wouldn’t stretch.

Wake up, rethink the funding

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  • Tuesday, August 30, 2022
    • | CYP Now
Last week I was contacted by national radio and TV to do an interview about the impact of the cost-of-living crisis and how this will affect both parents and staff.

Exposing the unhelpful rules and regulations in early education

    Blogs
  • Wednesday, June 22, 2022
    • | CYP Now
I recently had the opportunity to attend (in person) the launch of new research: Implications of COVID for Early Childhood Education and Care in England, a study funded by the Nuffield Foundation, that was carried out by the Centre for Evidence and Implementation, the University of East London, Frontier Economics, Coram Family and Childcare and the Institute for Fiscal Studies.

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