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Kindness is contagious and it's worth us all catching it early
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Blogs
- Monday, February 24, 2020 | CYP Now
As early years’ teachers, we need to continually reflect on the purpose of education.
What does it say about the value of care when low skills are aligned to low salaries?
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Blogs
- Friday, March 6, 2020 | CYP Now
Does our Home Secretary need to be quite so offensive to the 319,000 staff who provide early childhood education and childcare to parents every day to enable them to work and contribute to the economy?
Run, don't walk! Getting children to be more active
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Blogs
- Tuesday, May 31, 2022 | CYP Now
I am reflecting on chairing a work webinar about supporting children’s healthy food and activity choices.
Aspiring Leaders; can you afford to ignore this opportunity?
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Blogs
- Thursday, February 18, 2016 | CYP Now
Why every chef in the early years needs to be trained
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Blogs
- Wednesday, October 5, 2022 | CYP Now
A new Prime Minister, a new Secretary of State for Education and a new Minister of State inevitably means a new set of promises.
The continuing saga of the childcare cost
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Blogs
- 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.
If children really are our future, why are we stalling?
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Blogs
- Monday, December 11, 2023 | CYP Now
November 16 marked Social Enterprise Day, so Happy Social Enterprise to you all. My dream is for every business to operate like a social enterprise and never have to explain it to anyone again!
Becoming Coram Hempsall’s
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Blogs
- Friday, January 5, 2024 | CYP Now
It was big news for us at the end of 2023, as we joined the Coram Group to become Coram Hempsall’s.
Let’s focus on what children have learned this year, rather than what they’ve missed
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Blogs
- Monday, February 15, 2021 | CYP Now
With recent reports DfE officials are considering plans to extend the school day so children catch-up with lost learning, can we not consider what children have gained or need instead?
The only people who think exams are the best method of assessment are those who have benefitted
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Blogs
- Tuesday, April 6, 2021 | CYP Now
It seems every year we have the same debate about academic assessment. And as the years pass by, the pendulum of fashion and trends swings one way or the other.
Stay professional, control the virus, improve lives
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Blogs
- Wednesday, June 3, 2020 | CYP Now
Like schools, early years settings were asked to open from 1 June - it was and is a big ask and full of difficult decisions, contradictions and risks.
Pause to learn
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Blogs
- Friday, May 15, 2020 | CYP Now
Since I have been operating the LEYF business from home, I’ve increased my video conferencing to check-in everyday with the 15 nursery hubs that still remain open.
Will 2016 be the year the government will properly fund childcare?
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Blogs
- Tuesday, January 19, 2016 | CYP Now
Join the London OBC 2023
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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.