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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

Interview - Diana Lawton, nursery MD and apprenticeship campaigner

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  • Tuesday, March 29, 2022
    • | Nursery World
Lawton, who is managing director of Our Monkey Club, was one of a number of people in the sector working on the Level 5 Early Years Lead Apprenticeship standard, which was approved for delivery in August 2021. The trailblazer group is now working on the Level 6 apprenticeship standard

Interview - James Alexandroff, founder of Perivoli Schools Trust

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  • Tuesday, February 1, 2022
    • | Nursery World
James is the founder of Perivoli Schools Trust, a UK registered charity that funds a nursery school teacher training programme in countries across Sub-Saharan Africa. In total, the trust has trained over 10,000 teachers since 2012, with a target of reaching 200,000 in the next ten years.

Interview – Patrick Butler, care village Belong

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  • Tuesday, December 21, 2021
    • | Nursery World
The former nursery operator has been appointed general manager of the North-West’s first care village with an integrated nursery. Opening next spring, it is dementia care specialist Belong’s first intergenerational site. The provider runs seven other care settings across north England

Interview - Yvette Stanley, Ofsted’s national director for regulation and social care

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  • Tuesday, November 23, 2021
    • | Nursery World
In November, Ofsted published a report exploring the roles and responsibilities of nursery groups in England. It focuses on understanding how multiple providers – those that own two or more settings – influence policy and practice across individual nurseries. Following the report, Ofsted has called for greater oversight of multiple providers.

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.

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