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Institute of Education Research Findings:
Pre-School Childcare

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…

Kate Grenville at the Australia and New Zealand Festival of Literature and Arts

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…

Australia and New Zealand Festival of Literature and Arts, London

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,…

Increase in childcare entitlement from 15 – 30 hours per week.

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 2015, April 14th

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’ Training for Family and Childcare Trust

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…

The Code Generation

‘ 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,
new Shadow Childcare Minister

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…

Tailor Made: How do community groups improve society?

  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…