Privacy and Safeguarding During Intimate Care by Leila Garau Taylor
Reflective Practice Lead and DSL Leila Garau Taylor explores what the updated EYFS safeguarding requirements around privacy during intimate care mean in practice, reflecting on how we can balance children’s dignity and feelings with safeguarding, and how everyday routines teach children about consent, body autonomy and respectful relationships.
Beyond the Settling-In Period: Building Lasting Parent Partnerships to Support Children by Liz Willcox
Childminder and former primary teacher Liz Willcox explores what genuine partnership with parents looks like beyond the settling-in period, sharing practical insights on building trust, navigating harder conversations, engaging families who may find it difficult to connect, and making communication truly two-way.
Webinar: Sensory Food Challenges and Restrictive Eaters with Catherine Jeans
In this recorded session, Catherine Jeans joins our SEND Network to explore sensory food challenges and restrictive eating, from understanding ARFID and what else might be going on for restrictive eaters to practical strategies like graduated exposure and food chaining that help broaden children’s diets gently, without pressure or judgement.
Webinar: Talking About… Babies and Attachment with Sarah Clarke
In this recorded session, Sarah Clarke joins our Talking About… Babies Network to explore the vital role of attachment in early development, sharing practical strategies for supporting secure attachments with babies and creating emotionally responsive environments that nurture the strong, trusting relationships which underpin lifelong health and development.
Mini INSET Session: The Characteristics of Effective Learning
In this staff meeting template, explore the Characteristics of Effective Learning through four practical activities, including an obstacle course, video, group reflection and learning walk. Designed to fit into 45 minutes, it supports your team to reflect on how your environment and interactions nurture children’s curiosity, engagement and resilience.
Case Study – Emotion Coaching
In this case study, Amber, a teacher from St Pauls Nursery School in Bristol, shares how the Emotion Coaching CPD programme transformed her practice, helping her support children’s emotional regulation and resilience, strengthen family partnerships, and shift her whole team’s approach to children’s feelings.
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We’re Recruiting Early Years Stronger Practice Advisers (SPAs)
Advance Your Career and Shape Early Years Education Are you an experienced Early Years Leader or Setting Manager eager for your next professional challenge? The Bristol & Beyond Early Years Stronger Practice Hub, covering the north of the SW region, is recruiting...
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