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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 - 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.

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