Launching today – 'The Alternative Big Listen'!
While Ofsted's survey is flawed, lacking in important questions and poorly worded, I nevertheless encourage everyone to engage with the endeavour…

Sharing your thoughts on topics overlooked by the 'Big Listen' in its comment boxes, can still convey your opinions to Ofsted. However, there's an alternative method that could yield more robust data. Please spare a few moments on 'The Alternative Big Listen' survey...

‘The Alternative Big Listen’ asks all the questions the government didn’t want Ofsted to ask. If you are in education, if you have children in education, if you work in education, PLEASE fill out this survey:

thealternativebiglisten.co.uk

This will be excellent

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'Increasing the ‘free’ childcare offer does not address the need for family support that was previously met by the decimated Sure Start programme' Spot on opinion piece from Michael Pettavel. CREC Early Years Alliance Early Education Nursery World Millie's Garden

Really important read.

Nonsense and you or your advisers should know it, Much of the world did not take part in that particular survey. Once again ministers are 'being economical with the truth'

Children families & society are damaged by lack of quality interactions. We need to learn from the settings where nurturing interactions are prioritised & ensure the expansion of EY & childcare is funded to provide lots of it

As a sector, we have to do better in this regard. We must prioritise awareness, attunement, attachment for every individual baby in our care & ensure a focus on one to one interactions. We must love our babies.

jo0L5s KT T - 🕊️ 💚 🇪🇺 Anne Gladstone Dr Chris Pascal Bristol Early Years Helen Moylett Millie's Garden Thanks for sharing all this.
It’s a perfect fit for where my thinking and practice are at. It links with #SpaceToFlourish project Debi Keyte-Hartland 💚🌳🌻🌱🌎🍃 Early Education and I are pioneering in London 💛CREC Helen Lyndon promoting arts, creativity, time to think - to enable flourishing.

KT T - 🕊️ 💚 🇪🇺 jo0L5s Dr Chris Pascal Helen Moylett Dr Sue Allingham #Birthto5Matters Ruth Swailes Millie's Garden Cassie Holland This is high quality education. You won’t get this with the DfE plans to move all qualified teachers out of nurseries

Such a wonderful event today

Wonderful Dr Chris Pascal ❤️I could happily listen to her talk all day - flourishing, trust, love, evidencing the eudaemonic - how hopeful and invigorated she always leaves me feeling!

jo0L5s Anne Gladstone Dr Chris Pascal Bristol Early Years Helen Moylett Millie's Garden Eudaimonia. very much a discourse to go alongside your practice, to paraphrase Prof Chris Pascale, creating climate of trust & joy where children are deeply involved in their learning & have a sense of agency. I think you'll find this an interesting read
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jo0L5s Anne Gladstone Dr Chris Pascal Bristol Early Years Helen Moylett Millie's Garden I was actually thinking how we have such great examples of this practice in Bristol where children really flourish, we need to research it more fully - make the eudaimionic visible & valued

The importance of supporting children to flourish, experience joy & trust. Vital messages for early education & beyond from ⁦Dr Chris Pascal⁩
Refreshing discourse with ⁦Bristol Early Years⁩ ⁦Helen Moylett⁩ ⁦⁦Millie's Garden⁩

There needs to be an Alternative 'Big Listen'. It's coming. Watch this space!

We're proud to support coalition member Praxis' call to make government-funded early education and childcare available to all children regardless of their parents' immigration status.

Every child has a right to a fair start in life.

OMG! 👇🏽

Enough now, we can see they’ve no intention of changing. Government values single word judgements more than people’s lives.