🗓️ Book now! 🌉 At our annual conference on 11 September, leading international researchers, policy makers and practitioners will share innovative approaches to turn evidence into action for babies and young children. #PEDALConference2024 💻 buff.ly/3x9kEYf

A ‘landmark’ inquiry into children’s play in the UK has been launched in a bid to give children back their childhoods, tackle childhood obesity and poor mental health. nurseryworld.co.uk/news/article/n…

Interesting from Dawid Gondek - How can schools and communities help children with violent home lives? buff.ly/3KH3Rjd UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health ESRC International Centre for Lifecourse Studies UCL News UCL #ACEs #children #mentalhealth

Our webinar next week is all about MSc Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMH) 🧠 Join us to find out how this CAMH course can help you reach your career aspirations. We will be covering the modules, assessment criteria and special features. Register 👉 tinyurl.com/2p8mwesp

Storytelling can be a powerful tool to support the mental wellbeing of children. Come to our free webinar to hear about how to support children to develop positive wellbeing and our early years storybook, ‘Sometimes Happy, Sometimes Sad’: orlo.uk/wv5aT

Toddlerhood is an exciting time for your little one. The world is there for exploring, and your little one will want to try everything out! But there may be some tough emotions to face, too. Get our free poster with top tips on helping your toddler grow: orlo.uk/nnDyO

Student Ciara Steward first husting for police & crime commissioner earlier this year Perfect prep for chairing her 1st parliamentary husting tonight Both on NLive Radio - The Station that LOVES Northampton UniofNorthampton

Last week to apply for this brilliant role working with Christine O'Farrelly and Paul Ramchandani driving forward PEDAL’s work to develop new solutions to support early relationships and mental health in infancy and early childhood.

Are you working with children who are thought to be suffering from trauma? Trauma is complex. We must tread carefully. Read more about this in my article in Nursery World. Trauma: Part 1 - A lot to learn | Nursery World nurseryworld.co.uk/features/artic…

Important research showing that part of the solution to absenteeism lies in getting things right for children in the early years 👇 We need a strategy that helps all children thrive in school from the start, not just sanctions & emergency measures when things are going wrong.

ICYMI In this piece for Children & Young People Now I wrote about how The Labour Party health visiting & early education commitments could be the first pillars of a joined-up strategy for early childhood, and the foundations for SureStart 2.0 cypnow.co.uk/blogs/article/… iHV Early Education and Childcare Coalition

Lego play fun with our staff team today Dr Helen Caldwell @Jo_Barrow_UON Dr Kyffin Jones David Meechan Robin Sturman Coombs Professor Eunice Lumsden

Join us for the CARE summer conference this Friday. Looking forward to presentations in session 1 with chair Dr Rachel Basset-Dubsky! Expect dynamic research presentations from Dr Marcella Daye The GEM Network, Gemma Boaden & Tonia Daley-Campbell and Professor Wale Olajide. #UONCARE2024

Thanks Celia Hickson Bradford Green Party for signing up to #SpeakUpForBabies! Too often babies are forgotten about during elections. We want babies’ voices to be heard! Your name is on the list of candidates helping us speak up for babies!👉 bit.ly/speakupforbabi…

🆕 Announcing our big 2024 event! Sir Sir Michael Marmot will join us as Keynote Speaker to explore the reasons community is so important to human thriving! This year we're holding our #ACEAwareNation event online to allow even more people to attend! 🎟 aceawarescotland.com/2024-the-stren…

Really looking forward to the #EarlyChildhoodManifesto launch next week. The strategy groups have worked so hard, we are looking forward to sharing the key recommendations Early Childhood Studies Degrees Network #ECSDN UniofNorthamptonNews

Today samanthaweeks and I had the pleasure of presenting the keynote at the celebration of this amazing programme in Doncaster. A real example of we know we can do better AND WE ARE 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 Chatter youtu.be/dMEbH2h6xGE?si… via YouTube

Welcome to #UON, Caitlyn! 👏 EarlyYears

Children from Queen Eleanor Primary Academy - working with EarlyYears academics - have improved their communication and language skills by using Henri Matisse's classic works of art. northampton.ac.uk/news/children-… #matisse #henrimatisse #earlyyears #art #impressionism