October 2026
Virtual Event
Using Visuals to Support Speech, Language and Communication (SALT Network Session)
Stronger Practice Hub Event
Explore how visual supports can enhance understanding, communication and independence across everyday activities and routines, providing predictable, accessible ways to share information and reduce communication barrie...
Virtual Event
Leadership Matters Network (October 2026)
Stronger Practice Hub Event
Leadership Matters is a termly online network for early years leaders across the region to connect, share best practice and grow together in a supportive, collaborative space. It's an opportunity to exchange practical ...
Virtual Event
SEND Network: Understanding Autism in the Early Years
Stronger Practice Hub Event
Explore autism in the early years through a strengths-based, neurodevelopmental and inclusive lens, developing understanding of how autistic children may experience communication, interaction, sensory processing and th...
October Outdoor Learning Morning for Childminders and Children in Bath and North East Somerset
Stronger Practice Hub Event
Do you love exploring wild spaces with your children but sometimes feel a bit stuck for ideas or to know what most benefits the children you work with? Come and connect with us for our seasonal outdoor learning session...
Virtual Event
New to EYFS – Strengthening Early Years Teaching
Stronger Practice Hub Event
A one-day online course for Early Years Practitioners and Teachers new to the EYFS framework in schools, linked to the DfE's Best Start in Life vision. Covers the core principles of the EYFS — the four overarching th...
Virtual Event
Childminder Network: Running a Sustainable Childminding Business
Stronger Practice Hub Event
Do you struggle to know how your childminding setting is running from a business point of view? Many of us have started as a childminder with very little business experience. Come and talk about how you market and recr...
Virtual Event
Talking With Babies
Stronger Practice Hub Event
This session will explore how we can talk with babies to help them become confident communicators and develop respectful relationships that enable them to make genuine choices. We will consider how mindful care routine...
Virtual Event
How Can a Playful Pedagogy Work Within a Home-Based Childcare Setting? With Michelle Malomo
Stronger Practice Hub Event
A webinar for childminders exploring playful, therapeutic practices that meet the needs of babies and young children through play, considering how different types of play, flexible play environments and intentional adu...
Virtual Event
Mathematising the Day
Stronger Practice Hub Event
Identify children's everyday mathematical experiences and plan for playful moments of mathematics throughout the day, exploring evidence-informed approaches that support children's understanding of mathematical skills ...
Virtual Event
Talking About Twos: Meaningful Two-Year Progress Checks
Stronger Practice Hub Event
Explore how to make the two-year progress check a meaningful, child-centred process — celebrating children's strengths, identifying support needs, and working in partnership with families and other professionals to e...
Live Panel Webinar: Inside the Baby Room: Insights from the Babies in Mind Project
Stronger Practice Hub Event
A panel discussion sharing findings from the Babies in Mind project, a Bristol-based exploration of baby room practice, alongside emerging national research from the Nuffield Foundation-funded Achieving High-Quality Pr...
Virtual Event
Developing an Early Years Curriculum – Strengthening Early Years Teaching
Stronger Practice Hub Event
Develop an ambitious, inclusive Early Years curriculum that responds to the unique needs, experiences and cultural capital of your children, families and communities, drawing on Bristol's Early Years Curriculum Guidanc...
