Freelance, @NurseryWorld and @CYPNow magazine, 2025 BASW award winner. Now mostly on LinkedIn and Bluesky https://xitter.cf/t.co/Duue59wi6l
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Find out how two nursery groups are using mentors and innovative learning approaches to help develop individuals in their teams. By Hannah Crown nurseryworld.co.uk/content/f…
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Hannah Crown reports back from a day spent at the 2025 Barnes Children’s Literature Festival with her four-year-old son and explains why she is now inspired to ‘tear up the story time rule book at home’. nurseryworld.co.uk/content/f…
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Research found switching off internet on smartphone for a few weeks was as effective as antidepressant medication. Well worth a read .
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Playtime is not a reward, it’s a right. Children’s to play is enshrined in UN Article 31.
All the research points to free play being good for children, and less physical activity being bad for them.
So why are schools still reducing breaktimes and using removal as punishment?
There's a warning that playtime is being squeezed out of children's lives, according to a report by early years experts. They're urging the Government to protect playtime in schools after their research found that screen time instead of play, is leaving children unhealthy, unhappy, and not ‘school ready'.
@NickDixonITV reports.
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Let’s make sure Ofsted hears what those working in education really think.
Please respond to The Alternative Big Consultation (ABC) Survey surveymonkey.com/r/LQ7KG25
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DfE 'cheaper childcare' campaign angers providers - CYP Now cypnow.co.uk/content/news/df…
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Have you any thoughts on the majority male Ofsted board, given they preside over a majority female workforce and independent reports have found @Ofstednews to have a 'macho culture', and dishonesty and bullying by inspectors?
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Wonderful to join @froebeledin @playinpoppies
& 50x #FabFalkirkEducators at todays Slow sewing workshops, where we shared our @FroebelTrust funded project work.
Great participation & practical experiences to deepen knowledge 🧵🪡
Thank you @LvpsN for being fantastic hosts. 💕
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Make sure not to miss the opportunity to hear @DanWuori in person in Southampton on March 27th
Details and ticket booking here -
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What a way to begin the day in Belfast: speaking about early years policy at Northern Ireland’s Stormont Parliament Building.
Thanks to all involved in hosting - and all who attended - this great conversation.
Off to @UlsterUni for tonight’s event for @niscifest.
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The Nursery World Awards for 2025 are now open for entries. nurseryworld.co.uk/content/n…
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The past centenary saw the rise of nursery schools, which are now under threat. By Nicole Weinstein nurseryworld.co.uk/content/f…
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📣 JRF analysis: just relying on growth won’t reduce child poverty.
By 2029 (end parliament) only Scotland will see poverty falling, largely due to social security changes.
The UK child poverty strategy must end the two-child limit & ensure people on UC can afford essentials
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Today @educationgovuk have announced a "experience-based route" for staff with a level 3 qualification that doesn't meet the full and relevant criteria to be included in ratios from Sept 2025. Members: see our next newsletter for comment.
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How can intelligent materials be best used to make a truly enabling environment? By Debi Keyte-Hartland nurseryworld.co.uk/content/f…
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Researchers are to investigate how generative artificial intelligence (GAI) toys impact the wellbeing and mental health of disadvantaged children. nurseryworld.co.uk/content/n…
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Uplift in funding rates 'insufficient' to offset rising costs, childcare bodies warn - CYP Now cypnow.co.uk/content/news/up…
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If the government wants to ensure that 75% of 5-year-olds are ready for school then it will need to recreate the sort of early intervention support that we had under Sure Start, says @annelongfield
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NEW: In @EarlyLearnNatn, I wrote about what we can learn from KinderCare’s recent IPO & the disclosures they were required to make as part of the process. There are consequences to combining a profit-maximizing motives and human service like child care.
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Parents, who brought a judicial review against Hackney Council, are celebrating a huge win after the local authority admitted its consultation on children’s centre closures was ‘unlawful’. nurseryworld.co.uk/content/n…