Provision and use of Pre-School childcare in Britain. Key Research Findings Seminar at Institute of Education, Thomas Coram Research Unit, UCL, London. July 24th 2015 The research was undertaken with the aim of…
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Kate Grenville was in conversation at the Australia and New Zealand Festival of Literature and Arts in London on Saturday 30th May, 2015. The great pleasure in being a bookseller and publisher is…
The Festival runs over the weekend of May 30/31st 2015 with an amazing collection of authors and illustrators from ‘down under’. As publishers and booksellers, with strong project links to Australia, the range,…
Children and Young People Now have published the latest from the government in doubling free universal childcare entitlement. The government is to fast-track legislation to double free universal childcare entitlement to 30 hours…
Venturefest East Midlands 2015 At the Social Business Hub, SmithMartin Partnership worked with some amazing projects and were delighted to make new contacts and be part of the Social Business scene in the…
Our Partnership will be exhibiting in the Social Business Hub of Venturefest East Midlands, in Nottingham, on Tuesday 14th April 2015. Supporting the Social Business Hub visitors in their exploration of the newly…
Parent Champions’ is a volunteering project established by the Family and Childcare Trust and has become hugely successful in the last seven years. As one of their trainers for the project I…
‘ Learning how to program is the new Literacy,’ says Marina Bers from Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts. An article by Niall Firth in the New Scientist 6.9.14, shows how children are using…
Alison McGovern has been appointed as the new shadow childcare minister. She replaces Manchester Central MP Lucy Powell, appointed to the shadow early years brief in October 2013, has led Labour’s campaigns over…
Research from the Community Development Foundation shows that vital contributions from small community groups are making huge benefits nationally to society. Today sees the launch of a research project ‘Tailor Made: how…