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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 – best-selling children's author Julia Donaldson

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  • Tuesday, September 27, 2022
    • | Nursery World
The bestselling children’s author and poet of more than 200 books – includingThe Gruffalo, Room on the Broom andSuperworm – has had many of her lyrical, rhyming stories made into animations and regularly performs her books on tour at festivals and theatres, including recently at the Edinburgh Fringe. She was the Children’s Laureate between 2011 and 2013 and honoured with a CBE in 2018 for services to literature.

Interview - Dr Margot Sunderland

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  • Monday, December 9, 2019
    • | Nursery World
The child psychologist and author has launched Communication Skills and Attachment Play, a DVD aimed at parents and practitioners

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 - Iain Colledge, executive director of operations, Bright Horizons

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  • Tuesday, June 28, 2022
    • | Nursery World
Colledge was appointed to the role in March having worked predominantly in the school sector for more than 20 years across the UK, Europe, Middle East and Asia. He has also consulted on school improvement and growth, advised governments and private sector investors, been an early years project director for the British Council and worked as an Ofsted inspector.

Interview - Elsie Normington

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  • Friday, November 23, 2012
    • | Nursery World
Author of The Silent Doorbell, an account of raising a child with a learning disability. Ms Normington also founded SNAP, a play centre for disabled children.

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 - 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 - 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.

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