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Guide to Qualifications and Training: Early Years

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  • Thursday, September 1, 2022
  • | CYP Now
The early years sector continues to face a recruitment crisis with 84 per cent of settings finding it difficult to recruit suitable staff, according to an Early Years Alliance (EYA) survey published in December 2021. The EYA is calling on the government to provide early years funding rates that enable providers to pay higher salaries, and to run a high-profile recruitment campaign.

Sustainable Services: Policy context

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  • Wednesday, December 22, 2021
  • | CYP Now
There are numerous studies showing how events like floods, fires, drought and harm to animals as a result of habitat destruction are affecting the mental health of young people, who now face even more uncertainty about their future because of the pandemic.

Social Mobility in the Early Years: Policy context

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  • Tuesday, June 29, 2021
  • | CYP Now
A socially mobile country provides equal opportunities for everyone, across big cities and small towns, and regardless of whether your parents are rich or poor. Yet, research has shown that children from the most disadvantaged backgrounds start school behind their better-off peers developmentally.

Social Mobility in the Early Years: Research evidence

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  • Tuesday, June 29, 2021
  • | CYP Now
Neil Leitch, chief executive of the Early Years Alliance, outlines findings from its provider survey on the pandemic’s impact and the challenges the sector faces in tackling the disadvantage gap in pre-schoolers.

How I Got Here - Jade Swain-Veneziale

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  • Thursday, May 28, 2020
  • | CYP Now
I first started attending my local children’s centre when I became a mum in April 2015. I had health complications following the birth of my daughter, and because I have no family close by and at the time I was in an unstable marriage, I felt very unsupported and isolated. I was desperate for somewhere to go where I could find advice, support and comfort and where I could also feel safe.

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