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Interview: Meet Helen Donohoe, PACEY's new chief executive

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  • Tuesday, February 28, 2023
  • | Nursery World
Helen Donohoe, former policy advisor at the Professional Association for Childcare and Early Years, has replaced outgoing chief executive Liz Bayram. Before joining PACEY, Donohoe worked as a freelance researcher and policy advisor. She was also director of public policy at Action for Children for more than four years between 2009 and 2014.

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 - 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 - Deborah Lawson, former general secretary of Voice Community

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  • Tuesday, May 31, 2022
  • | Nursery World
Lawson retired from the role earlier this year after 30 years in the early years sector. She previously worked for a local authority in various childcare roles before moving to Voice, then known as the union for education professionals, in 2012. In 2020, Voice joined the Community Union, with Lawson as assistant general secretary.

Interview - Andrea Leadsom

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  • Thursday, April 28, 2022
  • | Nursery World
A year since the publication of The Best Start for Life, the chair of the Early Years Review tells Nicole Weinstein about how the Government’s vision for family hubs is taking shape following the £500 million earmarked for families and early years support in the October 2021 budget and spending review

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