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Co-op Childcare takes home NMT Nursery Training and Development Award 2018 In this blog we ask Babita Saroy, Quality Excellence Manager at Co-op Childcare, on her thoughts around winning the award – and the hard work the whole team put…

The Professional Nursery Kitchen was delighted to be chosen as the winner at the Nursery Management Today Awards for Nursery Product / Innovation, being recognised for providing the nursery sector with the most exciting and important product over the past…

In recent months I have heard trauma informed care mentioned at various meetings and events I have attended. Colleagues from health, education, social services, housing, the police and the voluntary sector are all taking about the need for early intervention…

Any man can be a father, but let’s celebrate the importance of dads!  Any man can be a father but it takes someone special to be a Daddy.”  Anne Geddes I recently wrote a book with the wonderful Alice Sharpe…

A guest blog from Sarah Fillingham. It’s been another busy year for Portico Nursery Group, but back in 2015 is where one of our biggest changes began, when we moved from paper learning journeys to iConnect. One of the biggest…

Most childcare providers have processes in place to reduce the likelihood that a serious incident could happen in their setting. We all hope that nothing goes wrong at our nurseries. But are processes and hope enough? We spoke to Jackie…

In the second instalment of our series on GDPR, we get more of your questions answered. Eddie Whittingham is a former Police Officer and qualified solicitor, specialising in Cyber Crime. He is now the Managing Director of The Defence Works who…

GDPR is the hot topic that everyone is currently talking about. The new General Data Protection Regulation is an EU directive starting in May and it affects ALL UK businesses. There is a lot of confusion in the childcare sector…