Helen Moylett will help us get up to speed. Helen is an independent early years consultant and has a national reputation as an inspirational conference speaker. Early in her career she worked in schools as a primary, early years and home school liaison teacher, an adviser and then as a senior lecturer in primary and early years at Manchester Metropolitan University. In 2000 she became head of an early years centre. As a head teacher she was a Birth to Three Matters trainer and researcher. From 2004-2011 she worked for the National Strategies and was centrally involved in developing the EYFS and led the Every Child a Talker programme. She was an expert adviser to the Tickell EYFS review and co-authored ‘Development Matters. Helen has written and edited several early years books. She tutors at the Centre for Research in Early Childhood in Birmingham and is a Vice President of Early Education. She received a Nursery World Lifetime Achievement Award in 2019.