Childcare and Education Minister Sam Gyimah MP will open the conference with a keynote speech on the progress of the funding review into the doubling of free hours for three- and four-year-olds of working parents.
Professor Usha Goswami, author of the hugely influential research paper 'Children's cognitive development and learning' for the Cambridge Primary Review Trust, will talk about the very latest research on how children learn.
Find out what parents really think about the childcare providers they trust with their children from Rimi Atwal, Managing Director, and Annie O’Leary, Editor-in-Chief, Netmums, who will relay the top concerns and true opinions of their very vocal user group.
And Summit delegates will have an exclusive pre-publication preview of the hotly-anticipated League Tables on size and quality from Nursery World's annual Nursery Chains supplement.
Other highlights from the day's programme include:
- A cross-sector debate on workforce and qualifications
- Ofsted on the newly-implemented Common Inspection Framework
- Spending the Early Years Pupil Premium wisely with the Early Education team
- Ian Murchie of Barclays on attracting investment
- The impact of public policy on young children with Giselle Cory of the IPPR
- Cross-sector panel debate on workforce, qualifications and the recruitment crisis
This essential one-day conference in central London brings together an expert line-up of speakers from Government, business and academia to discuss new directions for the early years sector as the free hours policy progresses, the two-year-olds programme and EYPP bed in, and the new inspection framework begins.
There'll be plenty of opportunities for networking with representatives of the leading nursery groups and individual settings, local authorities and schools.
Go to www.nurserybusiness-summit.com for further information and bookings or contact lucy.allen@markallengroup.com
