Last week Amanda Spielman, Ofsted’s Chief Inspector, gave a speech at the 2018 Pre-school Learning Alliance conference.

At the start of May we both attended the 9thBaby Room Conference

Home Start is a brilliant charity because it helps families with children under the age of five who maybe facing difficulties of some kind.

This week we are thinking about how practitioners can help young children in their language development.

Last month the Sutton Trust published a report that updates us on the status of children’s centres in England. The findings are concerning.

We like to talk in binary, essentialist ways as humans don’t we?  Man/Woman, More able/low ability, North/South.  It helps us categorise, make sense of and organise our world.

I was really excited about Lord Professor Robert Winston’s talk and became quite star struck when he came into the theatre.

  It’s always lovely to be able to do a trip out and get to know the area of the country we are living in. We always find it gives us ideas for both our writing and our discussions with our students and our colleagues. Last week we were lucky enough to visit a famous castle …

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I went to see Lemn Sissay in Canterbury last week.

Last month England’s Department for Education launched a new phase in their 'Together, we can tackle child abuse' campaign.