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
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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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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,
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Scotland has recently put the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child into domestic law. Guidance and inspection frameworks
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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
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