Love this phrase “celebrating a child’s right to just be, without the pressure to become”

Sad to see some fantastic MPs leaving Westminster for the last time today.

A big public thanks to Tim Loughton MP 🇺🇦 who has been a tenacious champion for babies, children & young people and shown what a committed back bench MP can do, working with the sector, to drive change.

Anyone involved in a school, nursery, community group etc in the UK and selected other nations can apply for money to do something playful on the first International Day of Play in June
changex.org/gb/fund/idop?u…

Home-Start UK The Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood Early Years Alliance NCT

Let’s try some reframing.

British communities lack opportunities for play & sport

Children’s health & happiness at risk

Decades of under investment in children’s health & wellbeing shows in teenagers quality of life

Gov policies have consistently undervalued play & sport

STUDENTS: REGISTER TO VOTE RIGHT NOW!

The law is as follows.

1. You can register at home AND at your term-time address, if that's more convenient for you.

2. You can CHOOSE on the day where to vote.

3. But you can ONLY legally vote in ONE place on the day.

Bought a new book solely on the basis of its title. Look forward to reading it as part of my ongoing exploration into how we make “having a good childhood” a policy goal and a valued outcome.

As the General Election is announced, the #SmokefreeGeneration vision is at a critical moment.

Every day in the UK, 350 young adults aged between 18 and 25 start smoking regularly.

It is vital that the Tobacco and Vapes Bill is passed before Parliament ends. @rishisunak

Well this is very exciting isn’t it.

Tickets for LEAP Parent & Infant Relationship Service evaluation webinar 12th June 12:30-13:30 eventbrite.co.uk/e/webinar-lamb…

Pleased to have been part of advisory group with Dr Karen Bateson & Sally Hogg for this evaluation led by Ellinor Olander

#ParentInfantRelationships

Whether it's helping families access support they need, prioritising social and emotional well-being of children and the adults in their lives, or creating a culture that prioritises early childhood, your business can make an impact: …inesscase.centreforearlychildhood.org/get-involved/
#CaseForEarlychildhood

Great to see this article on businesses’ responsibility to tackle childhood poverty for ⁦The Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood⁩ Business Taskforce.

I hope the businesses involved can commit to paying employees, contractors & ppl in supply chains a real living wage. …inesscase.centreforearlychildhood.org/guest-articles…

Congratulations to Catherine, who,many moons ago, was one of the people who interviewed me for my Undergraduate place at Oxford and was - alongside being a fantastic academic - always warm, smiling and encouraging in that strange new world.

Great to be at Young V&A tonight to hear about the LEGO funded power of play work in Tower Hamlets. Great to meet the Institute of Imagination team in real life and to reconnect with old friends at EasyPeasy and Nesta.

What a corker of a job vacancy this is. A Band 7 research job for people with appropriate psychological/practice related skills, working with PEDAL Cam I can vouch for how lovely this team are to work with and you'd be doing stellar work.

cpft.nhs.uk/latest-vacanci…

It's been great to work with the Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood on this fab programme of work to harness the power of business to support early childhood.

Here's a guide to how any employer (private, public & VCS) can be family friendly …inesscase.centreforearlychildhood.org/guest-articles…

Sign up for our David Whitebread Memorial Lecture on the first International Day of Play

The lecture will be given by Erum Mariam BRAC IED BRAC University

Our panel includes Zoe Dibb Right To Play Dr Stephen Bayley Benjamin Perks @unicef

Book here:
buff.ly/4bjsvRN

It is Mental Health Awareness Week

People can have different views on what mental health means.

We worked with UNICEF UK to describe what it means for babies and young children to be mentally healthy.

See more in our toolkit to support local action: unicef.org.uk/campaign-with-…

Wow, this is really stark. And it includes families with babies and children in terrible temporary accomodation.