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Five years ago in July 2020, we launched a simple idea with big impact

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.

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.

The Nursery World Big Day Out held on Friday 16 May 2025 celebrated the centenary of championing and supporting everyone in the sector.

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…

We have looked at our most popular training packages and given them a 2025 makeover.

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.

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.

When Hempsall’s was established at the very beginning of 2000, James Hempsall OBE MBACP FSET and Barbara Wilson knew then that working together to support everyone to meet the childcare challenge was going to be useful, exciting, and necessary. Here they reflect on that time and some of the learning along the way, the approaches taken, and things to take forward for whatever happens next.

A recent Coram Family and Childcare research report from reinforced what we have sadly come to know about targeted and universal funded early education and childcare entitlements.