by Cheryl Hadland | Oct 30, 2025 | Advocacy For Young Children, Policies and Standards
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS IN EARLY YEARS The Flourish Project has taken the United Nation’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals SDGs and created sets of topics that can be explored within primary/elementary school settings. The Flourish Model provides an ecological...
by Cheryl Hadland | Aug 13, 2025 | Advocacy For Young Children, Policies and Standards
As climate impacts intensify, innovative legal strategies are emerging worldwide to protect both people and nature. Recent cases — from South Korea’s climate rights rulings to proposals for granting legal personhood to rivers — highlight five main approaches shaping...
by Charli Henley-Carter | Feb 4, 2022 | Policies and Standards, Professional Development
The childcare and early years education sector is a priority and it’s about time people in high places treat it as such. The government needs to prioritise our children’s educational foundation as relevant and afford it commensurate funding. Recently,...
by Cheryl Hadland | Nov 12, 2021 | Advocacy For Young Children, Exemplar, Policies and Standards, Resources
Connect Childcare announces sustainability push to help futureproof UK childcare sector Nursery management software specialist Connect Childcare has announced a sustainability drive – seeing the firm commit to planting 250 trees – to help futureproof the early years...
by Cheryl Hadland | Jul 25, 2019 | Curriculum Practice, Economic Sustainability, Environmental Sustainability, Policies and Standards
GECCO asked Abbie Hine, Founder and Managing Director of marine conservation organisation, WiseOceans, for her experience using reusable nappies: Abbie’s young daughter is regularly in real nappies Q1. Why did you decide to use reusable nappies? Before my...
by Cheryl Hadland | Jul 22, 2019 | Curriculum Practice, Economic Sustainability, Environmental Sustainability, Policies and Standards
Nurseries are being encouraged to write to their local MPs now to gather support for the Nappies (Natural World Standards) Bill, which aims to reduce single-use plastics in disposable nappies and cut costs for local government and parents. The Bill which promotes...
