Play Matters: Play advocacy and sharing of knowledge. An overview of play matters and why the call to action was developed. It is all positive and we want to keep it that way too. Play is positive and advocating for it should be too. early-years-reviews.com/post/play-matt… #PlayMatters

We are so looking forward to welcoming you to the Uni of Northampton Health, Education & Society Aaron ⭐️ UniofNorthamptonNews EarlyYears Early Childhood Studies Degrees Network #ECSDN

Dr. Aaron Bradbury Early Childhood Studies Degrees Network #ECSDN

🌟 Join us this January for the FREE Love and Nurture event with Aaron Bradbury! BOOK ONLINE TODAY: training.bright-futures.co.uk/courses/love-a… 💖✨ #LoveAndNurture

FREE ONLINE Conference The ECSDN are hosting a free online conference on Friday 24th January from 9:30am to 1pm. The focus of the conference this year is One Early Childhood Voice One Vision. There are workshops and discussions. Book your free place now. docs.google.com/forms/d/1wwjO4…

In December 2024, the Center on the Developing Child launched a new website! 🎉 Our new site features resource guides to help you learn about key scientific concepts in early childhood development. Check out the Guide to Executive Function here: bit.ly/4gPsGXJ

We are pleased to announce our ECSDN manifesto will be out soon. It’s an opportunity to really seek a political discussion needed for Early Childhood. Watch this space. Members will get a copy via email first. A copy will be available to download on our website soon.

Today the ECSDN are pleased to share ECSDN Manifesto 2025. Making sure that Early Childhood as an academic degree stays centre of policy, but also further advances on why it's important that we continue to see Early Childhood grow in political decisions. lulu.com/shop/philippa-…

I am Excited to be taking part in the Westminster Insights #EarlyYearsWM conference on the 25th February to discuss how to improve outcomes for young children in childcare and early years education. Book your place here: westminsterinsight.com/conferences-... booking code=SPKR4451

We are pleased to send you all a physical copy of our ECSDN Manifesto edited by Philippa Thompson. We would welcome engagement in its content and hope we can work together as a network for Early Childhood. Bridget Phillipson Stephen Morgan MP Laura Trott MP Munira Wilson 🇺🇦

The Level 6 Early Years Teacher Degree Apprenticeship standard has been published and courses are expected to be available from 2026. Find out more on GOV.UK and register your interest at [email protected] Department for Education

🌟 If you missed our inspiring Love & Nurture Sessions yesterday? No worries! 🌼✨ You can now catch the enlightening webinar and accompanying resources from Aaron Bradbury and Tamsin Grimmer here: earlyyears.bright-futures.co.uk/love-nurture-w…

Happy Lunar New Year

This is phase 1 of our commitment for sustainability of our Early Childhood Studies Degrees as we embark on supporting and funding a research assistant. We are looking for doctoral supervisors in Early Childhood. Please email admin for an application form & more information.

Stephen Morgan MP Early help is key and it’s positive to see investment being done here. I’m still on the fence about school based nurseries as we can’t see that as the only answer but let’s try and work together. That’s what it should be about

Advocating for early childhood as an academic discipline and a graduate profession. The ECSDN policy and lobbying group are looking for research participants and are inviting you to take part. Please read the information below and make contact with the research leads

Experience-based route for early years staff ECSDN Response January 2025 Please read our response below. 👇🏻

It’s time to say goodbye. Come and find us on other platforms. We can no longer stay here. Thank you for being so supportive of all we have done as a network.