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July 2025 - Ofsted childcare data: beyond the headline findings
Delving into the inspectorate's latest annual early years data highlights key trends about the evolution of the childcare sector over the past year. Here are James’ five key takeaways from the Ofsted Childcare providers and inspections data 2024/25.
July 2025 - Parent power has never been so potent: what does it mean for early education and childcare?
We are again in a rapidly evolving era and landscape for early years and childcare. One truth is becoming increasingly clear: parent power is reshaping the sector like never before.
July 2025 - Five years of Coram Hempsall’s coffee breaks: Connection, conversation, and community
Five years ago in July 2020, we launched a simple idea with big impact
July 2025 - Rise like Sure Start
This week’s publication of the Government’s Best Start in Life Giving every child the best start in life - GOV.UK strategy has been warmly welcomed. There is no doubt the sector has been asking for and patiently awaiting a longer-term intent. We have long needed a rationalisation of our many anachronisms and over-burdensome processes.
June 2025 - Babyzone: open, accessible and measurable
I visited a Babyzone project recently. They are a UK-based charity that aims to provide holistic support to disadvantaged families with children under the age of five.
May 2025 - We need a new industrial revolution
The Nursery World Big Day Out held on Friday 16 May 2025 celebrated the centenary of championing and supporting everyone in the sector.
May 2025 - Online training is good, face-to-face training is great!
We like delivering online training, and we do it a lot. But we love the power and the connection of face-to-face. Here’s why…
April 2025 - Up-to-date Training
We have looked at our most popular training packages and given them a 2025 makeover.
March 2025 - From lockdown to now: Five years of looking back and moving forward
Our worlds changed on 23 March 2020. We were united by a sense of uncertainty, feelings of anxiety, and of confusion around what was to come.
March 2025 - Taking a long look at the policy landscape in early years and childcare
We’re used to change in the early years and childcare sector. Some it we can see coming a mile off, some of it comes unexpectedly. No one saw the Covid pandemic coming in 2020, and the Brexit referendum result was on a knife-edge back in 2016.
