ChangeThinking with SmithMartin

Category: Supporting Parents

Families and priorities after June 8th 2017

The UK is moving fast towards the next general election, debates, broadcasts, chat shows and face to face meetings. But what are they going to do to help families? So much talk and…

An Equal Start in Life – Finland’s Baby Box

One of the most beautiful things we have seen is the Baby Box for all newborns in Finland. ‘I started life in a box, we all did!’ said a colleague, who was proud…

Motherhood Around the World

Embed from Getty Images Image: Mother and child in Sweden, ready for winter? Joanna Goddard’s U.S. on-line journal, A Cup of Jo, has been publishing a series of articles in recent years about…

Increase in childcare entitlement from 15 – 30 hours per week.

Children and Young People Now have published the latest from the government in doubling free universal childcare entitlement. The government is to fast-track legislation to double free universal childcare entitlement to 30 hours…

Alison McGovern,
new Shadow Childcare Minister

Alison McGovern has been appointed as the new shadow childcare minister. She replaces Manchester Central MP Lucy Powell, appointed to the shadow early years brief in October 2013, has led Labour’s campaigns over…

Parent’s Participation Research at Daycare Trust

Parents’ Forum at Granard Children’s Centre in Wandsworth Daycare Trust has been exploring the range of volunteering opportunities and parent participation initiatives being managed by local authorities and Children’s Centres in England. The…