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Interview - Annamarie Hassall

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  • Tuesday, September 28, 2021
    • | Nursery World
Annamarie Hassall will take up her new role in October after working as the National Children’s Bureau’s (NCB) strategic director. Nasen is a charity that supports and champions those working with, and for, children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) and learning difference.

Interview - Natalie Kane and Gillian Muir

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  • Wednesday, September 1, 2021
    • | Nursery World
Natalie Kane has won BBC Radio 4’s All in the Mind Award (individual category) 2021 for the mental health support she gives to the nursery staff, after she was nominated by Gillian Muir. This year there were more than 1,100 entries for the awards, which recognise the people and organisations that have gone beyond the call of duty to help support people with their mental health. The individual award recognises a family member, friend, manager or colleague who offered significant support.

Interview - Clare Stead and Laura Outhwaite

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  • Tuesday, August 3, 2021
    • | Nursery World
Findings from a study on the effectiveness of the Oliiki app suggests it has ‘significant benefits’ on parental self-efficacy in the first 1,000 days of life. The research found that mums and dads who used the app over a four-week period had greater belief that they can be successful as a parent.

Interview - Claire Cobain

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  • Tuesday, June 29, 2021
    • | Nursery World
Claire Cobain is headteacher of Arlesdene Nursery School and Pre-school in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire. Around a third of the children attending the setting are diagnosed with SEND. It is the first early years setting in the UK to gain the National Autistic Society’s Inclusion Award.

Interview - Monika Jephcott and Sophia O'Neill of Play Therapy UK

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  • Tuesday, June 1, 2021
    • | Nursery World
Monika Jephcott (left), chief executive of Play Therapy UK (PTUK), has spent six years lobbying the Government to ensure children are at the forefront of the reform of the 1983 Mental Health Act, scheduled to become law during this Parliament. Sophia O'Neill, child and family therapist (right), who works as a lead play therapist at Treetops Therapy and teaches a postgraduate Master's course on Practice Based Play Therapy, is PTUK's spokesperson.

Interview - Caroline Wright, Early childhood director at Bright Horizons

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  • Tuesday, March 30, 2021
    • | Nursery World
Caroline’s career includes 21 years in quality improvement, starting as an under-eights advisor in Cambridgeshire. She has worked as an Ofsted inspector, was early years director of Kidsunlimited, and worked at The National College, and as an Early Years Initial Teacher Training lead for Early Years East, before returning to a senior role in private daycare.

Interview - Anne Longfield

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  • Tuesday, March 2, 2021
    • | Nursery World
Anne Longfield OBE has been a passionate champion for children for more than 35 years, taking on the role of England’s Children’s Commissioner in 2015, after running charity 4Children. In an interview with Nursery World, just before her tenure in the post ended on 1 March, she describes the challenges she has faced and her accomplishments over the past six years.

Interview - Jodie Reed, director at Isos Partnership

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  • Monday, February 1, 2021
    • | Nursery World
Jodie Reed leads Isos’s work on early years, childcare, early help and prevention, and is the co-author of Working for Babies: Lockdown lessons from local systems, which shines a light on society’s most vulnerable members during the spring 2020 lockdown. Ms Reed’s previous roles include the Early Intervention Foundation and the DfE.

Interview - Fiona Smith

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  • Sunday, December 20, 2020
    • | Nursery World
Fiona Smith is responsible for bringing The Learning Experience (TLE) from the US and driving its franchise expansion, with the aim to open 70 nurseries in the UK. Founded in Florida 40 years ago, TLE has more than 275 settings, 90 per cent of them franchises. Ms Smith, who has a background in franchising, oversaw the recent UK nursery launch.

Interview - Bethany Shirley, co-founder of Parenthood Matters

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  • Tuesday, October 27, 2020
    • | Nursery World
A lead campaigner in the recent parliamentary petition to have maternity leave extended, which was signed by more than 200,000 parents, and one of the founding members of a new campaign group that wants to find a solution for childcare funding that suits both early years providers and parents.

Interview - Linda Cuddy, head of childcare, Welcome Nurseries

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  • Monday, September 28, 2020
    • | Nursery World
Since opening its first nursery in June last year, and backed by private investor Jonathan Jay, Welcome Nurseries has expanded rapidly and has just acquired its tenth and 11th settings. The group is now in locations across the North of England in Yorks and Lancs, and in the South in Essex

Interview - Dr Sara Bonetti, Education Policy Institute

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  • Tuesday, September 1, 2020
    • | Nursery World
Research commissioned by the Social Mobility Commission has found one in eight early years workers earns less than £5 an hour. The report highlights low pay and lack of career and training opportunities among the key barriers to a stable workforce. Report author Dr Bonetti discusses the findings

Interview - Professor Rachel Holmes

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  • Tuesday, July 28, 2020
    • | Nursery World
Professor Holmes was one of the contributors to the Birth To Three Matters framework and leads the Children and Childhood Research Group at Manchester Metropolitan University, which is currently investigating the impact of the framework and how it lives on in practice today.

Interview - Brett Wigdortz, founder of Tiney

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  • Tuesday, June 2, 2020
    • | Nursery World
After 15 years of leading the education charity Teach First, Brett Wigdortz set up early years education company Tiney in 2019. Tiney’s mission is ‘to empower a generation of micro-entrepreneurs to deliver amazing care from their own homes’. Since the lockdown, Tiney has received a surge in applications, many from people reconsidering their careers.

Interview: Jackie Marsh

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  • Tuesday, April 7, 2020
    • | Nursery World
Professor of education at the University of Sheffield, and chair of the DfE’s expert panel, which has accredited apps for home learning on the Hungry Little Minds website. This gives parents access to video tips, advice and suggested games to help with early learning for their children from birth to five.

Interview - Laura Henry-Allain

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  • Monday, March 2, 2020
    • | Nursery World
Well-known trainer, author and creator of the children’s picturebook series Jo-Jo and GranGran, which has been turned into a CBeebies TV series

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