Julian Grenier CBE
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I work on #earlyyears for EEF. Previously led Sure Start Children’s Centres for 20+ yrs. Worked on the McDonald’s Filet station once too. Views my own.
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So proud to receive a CBE from HRH The Prince of Wales
@KensingtonRoyal
at Windsor Castle. This is for everyone in the
#earlyyears
sector and all my colleagues over the last 30 years. Thank you all.
Very happy family day with
@CarolineVollans
@MaisieVollans
and my brother Mike.
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My guide to the new Development Matters and EYFS is published today!
Working with the Revised Early Years Foundation Stage: Principles into Practice
The full-colour book will be available to buy next week for £20.
Free download [PDF] from
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Today I handed in my badge as the headteacher of Sheringham Nursery School and Children’s Centre.
A few reflections about my time as a headteacher, and my 25 years as a head/deputy in
#maintainednurseryschools
A thread 🧵
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After a lot of delays (sorry everyone!) here is a free video briefing all about the changes to the
#EYFS
.
It’s been independently put together by a group of frontline early years practitioners, for free use by anyone in the sector.
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I’m very much looking forward to my new role from April as Curriculum Lead (Early Education) and HMI
@Ofstednews
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This made my (World Book) Day.
Thank you
@MichaelRosenYes
for signing a copy of We’re going on a bear hunt for each of the 45
#earlyyears
settings taking part in the Newham Communication Project.
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Time to thank my partner,
@CarolineVollans
This honour is just as much about the people around me. Caroline’s support, incisive intelligence and love are at the heart of everything I do.
With love to Caroline and thanks from the deepest place in my heart.
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I'm worried about what I'm seeing in the early years: we should all be worried about growing educational inequality
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Want ideas about how to challenge gender stereotypes at each age?
Really useful guide from
@fawcettsociety
#unlimitedpotential
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Friday was my last day at Ofsted as an HMI and early education lead.
It’s been an honour to inspect so many schools in London.
I’m grateful for the hospitality of so many staff teams.
Some reflections on
#earlyyears
1/8
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Putting the
#EYFS
curriculum into practice:
I’m sharing my keynote from Newham’s early years conference as a free webinar with slides to download
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Interesting research suggests just how important Reception teachers are.
The most effective 2.5% of reception classes add higher lifetime earnings averaging between £2,000 to £7,500 a pupil, even after controlling for variables like family circumstances
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We are ‘one early years’
We are all covered by the same statutory framework for the EYFS.
It’s absolutely wrong for
@educationgovuk
to divide us and offer home testing to school based provision alone.
I’m with you, PVI colleagues and friends.
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Important points being made here. It's also common to see early years settings over-decorated and it can make for a stressful environment.
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4/4 - the final risk is around funding. The government’s hourly rate doesn’t meet the actual costs. Nurseries and childminders try to close that gap through fees e.g for under 2s.
The new hourly rate must fully cover costs. Otherwise even more settings will become unviable.
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A murmuration just before sunset in Brighton - countless starlings swirling in and out of formation. Breathtaking.
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A few quick responses to today’s announcement from the chancellor. Others will do the detailed analysis of the funding etc much better than me.
As a nursery school headteacher here are my 4 key points. A short 🧵
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1/4 - there isn’t enough focus on quality in discussions. We should be talking about high quality early years education integrated with childcare.
That gets every child off to the best start.
It also supports working parents.
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When you’re reading
@lemnsissay
on the tube and you miss your stop and it takes you ages to get back home. But you don’t really care.
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The updated
#EYFS
Statutory Framework applies from 4th September.
There are 3 changes to the Framework to be aware of.
Always check the full framework before you make any changes.
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I’m really pleased to be moving onto a new post working on
#earlyyears
at
@EducEndowFoundn
Children’s life-chances are simply too unequal. We need to do better. 8/8
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Never seen so many people supporting maintained nursery schools - united, determined, committed to the future of our schools.
Gathering on the green now before we march to Number 11 to deliver our petition.
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#NWAwards
on my way - looking forward to a great evening and wishing all the finalists the very best of luck 🍀
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Marching to 11 Downing Street now to deliver our petition. Save our maintained nursery schools
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Yesterday, I told families at
@SheringhamNurs1
that I’ll be leaving as headteacher at the end of this term.
It’s been the greatest privilege to work with this wonderful and diverse community in
@NewhamLondon
and with many brilliant colleagues.
Job ad for my successor 🔽
📣 We’re looking for a new headteacher for
@SheringhamNurs1
! You’ll be taking over from the brilliant
@juliangrenier
, leading
@elresearchsch
as well as
@brighter_start
(& working with me as CoG!). It’s a wonderful job in so many ways. Please share widely:
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‘At a time when we should be celebrating the efforts of our early years staff in schools, I am worried about the intolerable strains on them.’
My latest column for
@tes
🔽
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Absolutely thrilled by the news
@SheringhamNurs1
has been designated a Stronger Practice Hub. Huge thanks to our hardworking team and governors who’ve made this happen. We look forward to working across the whole sector in London and learning alongside colleagues old and new!
We're delighted to be awarded Stronger Practice Hub status and look forward to connecting with settings, childminders and schools across London. Follow us and keep in the loop!
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‘The scientific evidence tells us that the period from birth to two years old is the fastest for brain development. However, one in three parents is unaware of this.’
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‘Early years practitioners do one of the most important jobs in the country. But far too often you are unseen and your work is unrecognised’
@helenhayes_
#NewhamEY23
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📢 New blog: it’s time to choose.
Do we want evidence-informed practice in the early years?
Or influencer-informed practice?
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ATTENTION everyone in
#earlyyears
working to involve parents in Children’s learning: thread (1/8)
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This is such an intensely moving and sad blog from
@SwailesRuth
- but also filled with an amazing spirit and tenderness. I’m terribly sorry to read this devastating news; my thoughts are with you.
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Free PDF download: revised version of the '7 Features of Effective Practice' poster, with artwork by
@julidosad
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Free download: a tracker sheet that merges the new Development Matters with Birth to Five Matters
Tick off your children’s achievements in one simple place.
Save yourself time planning for next steps too - the tracker generates them automatically.
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And we’re off! Excited to open our 2023
#earlyears
conference and launching Putting the EYFS Curriculum into practice
#NewhamEY23
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New blog on using the updated Development Matters to support assessment and curriculum design - ‘Assessment beyond levels in the early years: improving learning for all children’
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'We need to rely less on the production of ‘evidence’ and become more confident in our understanding of child development and curriculum planning'
My paper in the latest issue of Impact
@CharteredColl
#earlyyears
#beyondlevels
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What does your two-year old need?
Useful infographic to share with parents and carers from the Progress Check at Age 2 guidance
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Delightful saying goodbye to our children this afternoon now we have a Healthy School Street.
I used to see cars circling, idling and pulling up on our zig-zag lines.
Now I’m seeing children walking, skipping, and on bikes and scooters.
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'A quarter of parents do not recognise that what they do in the first 18 months has a large impact on their child’s future.’
How come we’re failing to get our message out in
#EarlyYears
My latest column for
@tes
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We all owe a debt of gratitude to the EYEs, teachers, TAs and other staff in
#earlyyears
Thank you for all your hard work. For the support and compassion you’re showing to 1000s of children who’ve had a very difficult few years. It’s been tough: but you’ve made a difference.
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The changes to Development Matters are minor.
I’ve summarised them on my blog + linked to a detailed document.
I don’t think any plans will need changing.
I completely understand how wiped out everyone who works frontline in
#earlyyears
is feeling.
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Good luck this morning to everyone who’s returning to
#earlyyears
in schools. Parents and children will need our calm reassurance more than ever.
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2/4 with the focus on working parents, we’re layering on more disadvantages to those children who need most support. At the moment, children of working parents get a free 30 hours/week place. Where parents are not working or studying, it’s 15 hours/week.
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‘High-quality early education includes a strong emphasis on personal, social and emotional development (PSED).’
A thread about PSED in the
#earlyyears
drawing on the Best Start in Life research review from
@ofstednews
🧵1/14
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I've updated my Twitter profile - passing on the baton for
@elresearchsch
Delighted to say that
@melissapren
has been appointed Deputy Headteacher leading on the Research School and Stronger Practice Hub.
@flissj
is the new Director of the Research School.
Congratulations!
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3/4 - The gap between disadvantaged children and others might increase even further.
It’s already substantial.
Those gaps increase as children get older. They roughly double by the end of primary. They double again by the end of secondary.
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This is such an important issue: poorer families only get 15 hours of funded early education and care. Imagine if children from poorer families only got half a school day in primary/secondary. These case studies from
@suttontrust
are very powerful
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Please pass onto headteachers: free update about the
#eyfs
changes which take effect in September 🔽
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Sheringham Nursery School and
@KaizenPrimary
are delighted to announce that our bid to become The East London Research School has been successful
Thrilled, honoured and a little daunted ...
😁
@juliannemarriot
@NewhamLondon
@eko_trust
@EastLdnTSA
👇
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Supporting children’s oral language in the early years is vital.
It’s especially important that we support *all* children, especially those at risk of falling behind.
How can we do this? A thread 🧵
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Delighted but also a little terrified to be in an actual room about to speak
@nurserywrldshow
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Gary Lineker spoke his mind. Now we should too: fate could have put any one of us in those migrant boats
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I love this moment- picking up my daughter from university. Playlist ready: the Crystals and Bikini Kill. Happy holidays everyone 😊
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So excited to share the news of the new book with I've co-edited with
@CarolineVollans
An incredible range of contributors including
@SirajIram
@jan_dubiel
@AlisonMPeacock
@lizpemtbnm
@JuneOSullivan
@AaronTeamEC
and so many more!
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Are you a school governor getting to grips with the changes to the
#EYFS
?
I wrote a free briefing with
@lindamullis
to support school governors >>
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More than 11,000 people have downloaded my new book ‘Working with the revised Early Years Foundation Stage: principles into practice’ - it’s free as a PDF.
Or you can buy it as a full-colour book for £20 (not-for-profit)
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Lots of thoughtful messages to headteachers and teachers online - that helps.
In turn I’d like to pay tribute to all the Early Years Educators and Assistants. You are the beating heart of
#earlyyears
.
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'It doesn’t make any sense to say that a three-year-old is “on track”. Reception mustn’t be all about single-mindedly tracking children’s progress towards 17 early-learning goals.'
My latest column for
@tes
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**New**
Free downloadable poster from
@EducEndowFoundn
all about self-regulation and executive function skills in
#earlyyears
* What are they?
* Evidence summary
* Putting the approach into action
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Really pleased to see the revised version of Development Matters is now online
@educationgovuk
for early adopter schools. I’ll be doing as much as I can over the period ahead to explain, discuss and debate the new guidance.
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‘Play-based learning is fundamental to successful early education, but it is not an easy option.’
My latest column for
@tes
⬇️
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'As a headteacher, I know that my worst habit is to try to implement too much, too quickly.
Next year needs to be about doing fewer things, and doing them better.’
My latest column for
@tes
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Helping children to develop their communication and language in
#earlyyears
has never been more important.
My new column for
@tes
considers 3 key findings from the latest
@Ofstednews
early years research review 🔽
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Delighted to make my book free for everyone to download at
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Collecting my thoughts before the Hey! Conference which starts soon. Exciting but daunting to connect with so many people! Looking forward to it.
@hempsalls
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Free giveaway: retweet for your change to win one of five copies of my best-selling book, ‘Understanding the Revised Early Years Foundation Stage: Principles into Practice’
Winners announced Friday 3rd December
#earlyyears
#developmentmatters
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How can we improve professional development for teachers?
@Ofstednews
find that teachers are 'often unimpressed with the quality of their recent training and development'. Recommendations on effective PD design from
@EducEndowFoundn
helpful
Read report
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Interesting research - Supporting Spoken Language in Classrooms (SSLIC) from
@IOE_London
These are case studies from a range of settings who took part.
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How can we think about a curriculum for children in
#earlyyears
?
Find out how we've been reflecting and developing our thinking as a team
@SheringhamNurs1
We're also freely sharing our updated policy guidelines
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From 'What to expect in the Early Years Foundation Stage: a guide for parents'
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Preparing for the revised
#EYFS
?
How will you track children’s progress?
How will you check children against age-related expectations?’
How will you create baseline data?
This is one of my most popular blogs, and considers those questions:
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‘It is not possible to provide the quality of education and childcare needed in a modern nation with poorly paid, undervalued, low-qualified staff in an outsourced, profiteering, market-driven sector.’
Powerful letter from
@SirajIram
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Now more than ever we need highly-trained, well-qualified and decently paid staff in
#earlyyears
4/8
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New blog: my thoughts in response to the most frequently asked questions about the revised EYFS and Development Matters 🔽
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It was great that so many people joined in with our webinar
@elresearchsch
about learning Maths through Picturebooks in
#earlyyears
Catch up on the the recording of the webinar here:
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I’ll be speaking at this free online conference: The ‘Talking Time’ Study: Empowering Staff to Enhance Oral Language in the Early Years.
2.11.22 4-6.30pm
Register here:
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Sharing the PPT from the Barking and Dagenham headteachers’ conference on Friday -
@earlyed_uk
@EYTalking
@GillJonesOfsted
@ProfDanielMuijs
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Congratulations to our brilliant daughter Maisie.
What a slog - and you did it!
And thank you to everyone in the support team including the great
@HopeOloye
All done and she smashed it.
Dr Maisie Vollans, bravo! And to all your wonderful friends, forever supportive.
@MaisieVollans
@HopeOloye
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Sun rising over the sea … happy new year everyone. Best wishes for 2022!
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I think this blog from
@GillJonesOfsted
is a really important read so here is a short thread to explain why
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#Maintainednurseryschools
are a stunningly effective part of our education system according to HMCI’s Annual Report from
@Ofstednews
@APPG_Nursery
@b_merrick
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Poppies growing alongside the Greenway, one of East London’s treasures.
It’s a 4-mile path through Tower Hamlets and Newham running in top of the Joseph Bazalgette Northern Outfall Sewer.
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‘One of the great privileges of teaching young children is to help them to learn to read. The first words we read are similar to first wobbling steps: an obvious milestone.’
Excellent new blog from
@pollyweddle
for
@elresearchsch
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'The pandemic has affected children differently so we need to be cautious about over-general claims.
For example, our data does not support the view that children’s early communication has been especially hard-hit, if they missed a term of nursery.’
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Another helpful summary - practice which puts evidence into action, supporting young children’s communication and language.
@elresearchsch
#earlyyears
#NewhamEY24
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@rob_kelsall
@JackDromeyMP
@AngelaRayner
@EmmaHardyMP
@TracyBrabin
@johnmcdonnellMP
@Thelma_WalkerMP
@LauraSmithMP
@jeremycorbyn
@MikeAmesburyMP
@jessphillips
Massive queues as 100s queue to lobby parliament to save our maintained nursery schools. Wowee- what a turnout!
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Working on our early years curriculum and remembering once more how valuable Birth to Three Matters is. Have documents since have added any value?
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I’ve just finished this by
@meropemills
. It’s one of those rare pieces I feel everyone really should read. It’s message is so important. Also, a beautiful tribute to a lost child.
‘We had such trust, we feel such fools’
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A pleasure to host
@NickGibbUK
today with the team from
@educationgovuk
and
@stephenctimms
- useful discussions about
#maintainednurseryschools
and early learning through play combined with adult guided learning and terrific storytimes. So proud of our team today.
Thoroughly enjoyed visiting the outstanding Sheringham Nursery School and Children’s Centre in Newham today, at the invitation of head teacher, Julian Grenier.
@juliangrenier
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Getting it wrong in the early years?
My discussion of the early years coalition document, 'Getting it right in the Early Years Foundation Stage: a review of the evidence'
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Working in the
#EYFS
and want a free guide to the new framework?
A group of expert, frontline early years leaders and practitioners have worked together to make this popular video:
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‘The loss of maintained nursery schools would be a terrible act of social vandalism’ - absolutely right
@LucyMPowell
@stephenctimms
@TracyBrabin
@GavinWilliamson
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Kevan Collins from
@EducEndowFoundn
- "what saddens me is that we're still making the case for early education. What we should be talking about is making the case for GREAT early education."
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"I saw social divides being bridged through these centres which were in pram-pushing distance."
I'm hugely proud to be part of the leadership of a Children's Centre in Newham. But very angry to see the destruction of this great programme across England.
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