The national guidance for Early Years: Realising the Ambition has been out for a while now. For many of us, …
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The COVID pandemic was a few years ago now, but its effects are continuing, and so is the cost of …
Are the kids OK? Why are we still seeing greater need and what can we do? Read More »
There are lots of different views about how we should understand and respond to children’s behaviour, but most people are …
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Providing high quality early learning and childcare is one of the most important jobs anyone can do for children and …
ELC is meant to be all about play and fun and it is, of course. But sometimes we have to …
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Schemas are most often described as repeated patterns of behaviour seen in the play of young children, such as transporting, …
Next level schemas – from action to learning and thinking Read More »
Scotland has recently put the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child into domestic law. Guidance and inspection frameworks …
Not “too young”! Making rights and equalities real in ELC Read More »
Are you trauma-informed? ACE-Aware? Attachment-led? Resilience-building? There’s a lot of noise about trauma and adversity in childhood and it is …
Trauma informed practice in 3 easy steps (and 2 difficult ones) Read More »