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Sector must influence the coalition

Monday, May 17, 2010

| CYP Now

They say that a week is a long time in politics. Quite. As predicted in these pages for many months, the new Tory Secretary of State Michael Gove has renamed the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) as the Department for Education.

Affordable, flexible childcare plan would be a vote winner

Opinion

Monday, July 7, 2014

| CYP Now

There is a problem with childcare being so much in the public spotlight. People either become immune to the argument - a kind of "childcare fatigue" - or talk about it so much that we are lulled into a false sense of security that universal childcare is a reality or soon will be.

The importance of dads in the early years

Opinion

Monday, July 29, 2019

| CYP Now

During Mental Health Week, the Movember Foundation published its survey on new dads and there was some striking similarities with findings from a consultation we did with men in Blackpool about their experiences of being a new dad.

Letters to the Editor: Tackling foster carer shortage

Opinion

Tuesday, October 26, 2021

| CYP Now

I read Michael Savage’s article on the foster carer crisis with interest.

Ratios change not the solution to crisis in childcare

Opinion

Tuesday, June 21, 2022

| CYP Now

In July 2021, I wrote about the challenges facing early years education, and issued a plea to the government to supercharge a system that is creaking when it should be thriving. One year on, what is the state of the sector?

It's good logic to halve child poverty

Opinion

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

| CYP Now

The fiscal stimulus, be it tax cuts or increases in government spending, has been all the rage on both sides of the Atlantic, as the boldest way to ride the recession.