Letter to the next Prime Minister
The letter below sets out our key asks for the next government.
For many of us, the path we’ve taken in our careers can often be traced back to the passions and talents of our childhood and teenage years. We’ve teamed up with Inspiring the Future to support you in illuminating this path for young people by sharing your career story and showing them how their early interests can lead the way to an exciting future in childcare and early years.
Inspiring the Future is the perfect volunteering programme for professionals wanting to give back. Run by the Education and Employers charity, Inspiring the Future connects workplace volunteers with schools and colleges to broaden children and young people’s horizons, raise their aspirations and increase their motivation to learn.
Research shows that children’s aspirations are directly linked to what they see (or don’t see) around them, but by volunteering with Inspiring the Future, you can help all young people to gain invaluable firsthand insight into the childcare and early years sector. It’s really flexible – take part in one or multiple activities throughout the school year and the impact you can make is undeniable:
“The volunteers opened my eyes to different areas of work, and other ways of getting there. It was inspiring to talk to real people who have reached career levels that I aspire to.” 14-year-old student
“Meeting the volunteers has given me courage to know that I can do lots of things.” 9-year-old pupil
“Realising that his passion could be a job was a real lightbulb moment.” teacher
As a volunteer, you’ll be connected with primary schools, secondary schools, and colleges through Inspiring the Future’s dedicated online platform. This enables you to indicate your activity preferences, search for volunteering opportunities and accept or decline invitations from schools.
You can:
However you choose to volunteer, sharing your story with a young person is an incredibly rewarding experience:
“You will feel an enormous sense of achievement when one of the children says they want to follow your path. Being a role model to a young person is one of the best feelings ever.”
Alison, Inspiring the Future volunteer
Getting started is easy, sign up via Inspiring the Future and inspire young people with the possibility of channelling their current skills and interests into an exciting future career.
The letter below sets out our key asks for the next government.
On 10 June, Labour announced their plans for “over three thousand new nursery classes across England to open up access to childcare hours for families”,
The Lib Dems have published their manifesto, including commitments to incorporate the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child into UK law and to
Today, Friday 17 May, the Early Education and Childcare Coalition (EECC) has launched its new manifesto, with proposals to rescue and reform England’s early education
A new campaign to boost recruitment to the early years sector in England is being launched today by the government. The government press release says:
In a speech today, Kier Starmer will set out Labour’s plans to expand opportunity via five “missions” including “Early years reform – to boost child development with an
The Department for Education (DfE) is currently consulting on proposals to amend the Early Years Foundation Stage. They propose relaxing the requirements around the minimum
by Dr Jo Albin-Clark, Edge Hill University and Dr Nathan Archer, Leeds Beckett University Inspection in the news Being involved in education in England involves
The Department for Education (DfE) have published their response to the consultation on potential changes to staff:child ratios. The consultation received responses from nearly 10,000
by Kayla Halls, Early Years Research Fellow at Middlesex University & Mona Sakr, Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood at Middlesex University’ Leaders in the early
Today, teachers from the National Education Union are striking, including many working in nursery and reception classes. In the last week, the Department for Education
by Amanda Ince and Liz Bullough, UCL Institute of Education “I want to be an inspiring leader who can inspire my colleagues in my setting
Ofsted’s latest annual review highlights the impact of recruitment and retention challenges and finds a link between inspection outcomes and the proportion of graduates in
by Clarissa Frigerio Why are there so few men teaching in the early years? I have worked in the profession for almost 9 years, and
It could be argued that teachers who move into teaching reception for the first time, face the same challenges as the children themselves as they start in reception.
The tenth early years minister in ten years, Kelly Tolhurst, is now in post. It’s good news that early years is part of a Minister
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