LEYF News and CEO Blog

This blog is No.3 in the AI suite This week, I want to examine how, or indeed, if AI can help with daily office tasks. I am coming at this…

Will Government Policies improve our Children’s Smile? As ever, the Early Years sits right at the heart of societal issues. This time we are being asked to help look…

Launching the Reading Rights Summit in Liverpool Last week, Booktrust (where I proudly serve as a Trustee) hosted the Reading Rights Summit. We were joined by special guests, the…

A Right to be Children: The Importance of the Design Architecture   Good architecture combines…

Let’s really make change the only option: Become part of the ECEC movement Sarah Ronan is the director of the Early Education and Childcare Coalition (EECC) – an organisation…

Change the Way you Greet them There is a lot of concern about recently qualified staff who appear…

When the Labour Party won the election Bridget Phillipson MP the Secretary of State for Education told us that: Early years is about more than just childcare –…

Slow Pedagogy  Slow pedagogy calls for compassion where we actively do something to address suffering. …

It is Good to Talk! The signs of things going wrong in society are usually first evident in small children.  The widespread dependence on Smartphones is…

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…

Can the new Early Education and Care Coalition Influence the next Government? Sarah Ronan, Director of the recently formed Early Education and Care Coalition (EECC) joined me to…

Ofsted has just published Report 2… …part of our series of subject-based curriculum research reviews.  Do you remember the first one Best Start? This second…