Achieving Two Year Olds project is launched this month Mott MacDonald with its partner Hempsall’s has been appointed by the Department for Education to support the rollout of free early education places for less advantaged two-year olds.   The Government is introducing a legal requirement to secure free provision, through regulations under section 6 of [...]

  Local authorities have a statutory duty to provide information, advice and training to their Early Years workforce, and Early Years consultants should be at the forefront of delivering this. They are key players in ensuring that a local authority’s quality improvement strategy is implemented in all settings in a way that impacts on the [...]

Quality improvement is all about ensuring that all settings and all professionals consider how best to create, maintain and improve  provision in order to offer the highest quality learning and developing experiences for all children and their families. Children who experience high quality provision are well placed to achieve higher outcomes at school and develop better social, [...]