Cancelled BA flight, then delayed flight, dodgy trains in London and heavy traffic in Ipswich- BUT I made it. Here at Uni of Suffolk Social Work to support Jo Finch 🍺 to deliver her Professorial Inaugural lecture.

Professor Eunice Lumsden Toby Purser We Winnie Sin Wai Pui to thank for the photos. The students loved Toby's insightful knowledge of the city. It was a wonderful experience for them.

It's World Maternal Mental Health Day!

How you can advocate for new and expectant mums:
1. Write to or email your MP using our template (maternalmentalhealthalliance.org/advocacy-day)
2. Spread the word on social media tagging Maternal Mental Health Alliance and #MMHAdvocacyDay

#StrongerTogether #MaternalMHmatters

Early Childhood Studies Degrees Network #ECSDN is helping us to celebrate hardworking graduates of Early Childhood Studies (or equivalent) at the #NWAwards 2024🎉

Find out how you could become an award winner here: bit.ly/3SIY94e

news.sky.com/story/poorer-p…

Excellent photos Jo Toby Purser looks in his element

The Early Childhood Graduate Practitioner Competencies. ecsdn.org/wp-content/upl… 🧵

Sweden adventures 🇸🇪 ⁦Uni of Northampton Health, Education & Society⁩ ⁦UniofNorthamptonNews⁩ ⁦Dr Tanya Richardson⁩ ⁦Robin Sturman Coombs⁩ #Jonkoping #ChildhoodAndYouth #EarlyChildhoodStudies

We are sharing the seven stages of block play with our grandfriends and they LOVE it! #GIW24 Alison Peacock Community Playthings Belong Villages

Great piece by Torsten Bell highlighting the human cost of the two-child limit & referencing findings from our recent Nesta study: families are in severe financial disadvantage & their children are missing out on opportunities to learn and play theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Wow! This is incredible 👏👏🎉

Despite my broken shoulder it’s great to be celebrating at Nursing Times #SNTA the very best in nursing students & all who support them.
Delighted to share with wonderful Nursing and Midwifery Council guests including double nominee Chioma Vivian Ezunu
Uni of Northampton Health, Education & Society
📸 Prof Joanne Bosanquet MBE RN FRCN FQNI 🏳️‍🌈

Excited to attend the #STNA awards today and catch up with my lovely fellow judges Dr Ruth Oshikanlu MBE RN RM RHV QN FRCN FAAN FRSPH Sue Hill RN DN BN(Hons) QN PNA and the fab Giorgia raso 🌈 Good luck to all the finalists showcasing the very best in nursing excellence and innovation 😀🥳 NHS Professionals

This very long article (which took me several days to finish) is fascinating & disturbing. I had not realised the details of this means of funding private childcare - which affects the UK too. I think everyone interested in early years should read it.
earlylearningnation.com/2024/04/the-en…

Looks like a great session - and no fee! #EYMatters

Parents of two-year-olds set to struggle with early years costs despite new early entitlement funding, new survey finds.
buff.ly/43GFXw7
#EarlyYears
#Funding
#Childcare
#EYFS

We have successfully assembled an outstanding team of early years mentors dedicated to supporting male educators at every stage of their career.

Stay tuned as we reveal the identities of our six fantastic mentors over the next few weeks.

#MenInEarlyYears #EarlyYearsEducation

Please share #familyhubs ⁦Early Childhood Studies Degrees Network #ECSDN⁩ ⁦Nursery World⁩ ⁦iHV⁩ ⁦North Northamptonshire Council⁩ m.youtube.com/watch?v=leb00R…

Invest in Play, to Invest in our Children to Invest in Britain. #PowerofPlay

View the ITV News Report - youtu.be/TNWRTNyL4yo

Join our call via our petition - chng.it/M5mbhvCkPk

Read our Policy THE POWER OF PLAY at childrensalliance.org.uk/working-group-…

Lots of interesting articles on our blog, each related to a podcast episode. Well worth a listen.