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Looking forward to our joint #ChildcarePartnership event celebrating the power of the early years !

And here it is! The film we premiered tonight. We have been proud to tell this story of Scotland's journey. We hope we've made it easy for people to share widely. The world needs hopeful stories. #ScotlandsACEsJourney youtube.com/watch?v=wocEqQ…

Today, we are delighted to announce the publication of The Shaping Us Framework to help give social and emotional skills the greater priority they deserve, to support The Princess of Wales’ mission of creating a happier, healthier society. centreforearlychildhood.org/our-work/resea… #ShapingUs

Why should we be prioritising social and emotional development? Hear what some of our experts friends from across the early childhood sector have to say. ▶️Watch the full film on our YouTube channel: youtu.be/hopTnOz2eSM #ShapingUs

What a way to begin the day in Belfast: speaking about early years policy at Northern Ireland’s Stormont Parliament Building. Thanks to all involved in hosting - and all who attended - this great conversation. Off to Ulster University for tonight’s event for NI Science Festival.

Excellent event today Dan Wuori why we should Invest Early in our Children. Reminds us how we conceptualise early care and education in Northern Ireland has a direct bearing on its impact .....Are we optimising human development? #first1001days Kevin Duggan

Belfast is simply spectacular. After speaking to policymakers yesterday at the Stormont Parliment Building, I spent the morning at Belfast City Hall speaking to more than 150 early years teachers/leaders from across Northern Ireland. What a privilege to bring the message of

I was thinkng recently about attachment styles in the workplace, so I thought I'd post a THREAD about recent research publications on this topic. Many leaders won't realise they are dealing, in the office, with fears they held as an infant. So are their employees & staff members.

The revised practice guidance in Scotland Realising the Ambition for #earlyyears: "For children, now is more important than the future we plan for them. Rigid ideas of ‘school readiness’ or what children ‘should’ be doing place too much emphasis on concerns about the future"

Day 2 volunteering LOOK NORTH - The North Belfast Festival🎭 Great way to help celebrate #StDavidsDay 🌼 akin to our cultural “Celtic Cousins” across #NBF2025⛰️ with a love of writing ✍️ music 🎶 & comedy😂 Libraries NI Seatons of Sailortown The John Hewitt Society Pamela Rua Tony Kennedy Kelvin Collins Roisin McCooey 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

I used my first column in the The Irish News to discuss the governments failure on child poverty. The Assembly's Public Accounts Committee report said the child poverty strategy "lacked targets to reduce child poverty and there was insufficient focus on specific actions which could have made the difference."

Today is International Women’s Day. Thank you to all of the women in our lives making the world a better place. #InternationalWomensDay #IWD2025

Sister and Friend, 2024 ♀ by Betty Acquah, Ghanaian feminist painter #WomensArt #InternationalWomensDay ♀

“No society can understand itself without looking at its shadow side.” ~Gabor Maté🧠🌱

It can be tricky to assess parent-infant relationships without resorting to checklists, or risking them feeling bad about themselves or their baby We're working on developing a strengths-based, infant voice centred self assessment - here's progress so far, comments very welcome!

"If our culture is going to use the language of childhood trauma to talk about ACEs, then we need to face up to the fact that trauma is a common part of ordinary childhoods." An excerpt from my recent chapter in "Intersubjective Minds", just published by Oxford Academic.

New blog post & new illustration added to my membership page: soniasparkles.com/ideas-generati… When it comes to “thinking differently” and “being creative” brainstorming/ideas generation is one of the leading concepts to use to do this.

This is why we should not have children engage in formal, sit down academic learning (ie, send them to "school") before the age of 6. This idea turns out to be deeply culturally challenging for Britain. Upstart Scotland