{"id":7240,"date":"2021-11-12T09:30:20","date_gmt":"2021-11-12T09:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/?p=7240"},"modified":"2026-06-25T06:38:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T06:38:19","slug":"connect-childcare-ask-the-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/2021\/11\/12\/connect-childcare-ask-the-expert\/","title":{"rendered":"Connect Childcare \u2013 Ask the Expert with Cheryl Hadland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/connectchildcare.com\/blog\/ask-the-expert-episode-1-cheryl-hadland\/\">Connect Childcare<\/a>\u00a0launched a new blog series called \u2018Ask the Expert\u2019 \u2013 which provides a platform for all Early Years (EY) professionals to share their experiences and advice with the industry, on their chosen specialist subject.<\/p>\n<p>At the recent Childcare and Education Expo event they interviewed Cheryl Hadland, Founder and Managing Director of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.topsdaynurseries.co.uk\">Tops Day Nurseries<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspiretrainingteam.co.uk\/\">Aspire Training Team<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0GECCO. Throughout the interview, Cheryl shares some top tips on what settings can do on a day to day basis to ensure they are being\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.topsdaynurseries.co.uk\/sustainability-goals\/sustainability-in-practice\/\">sustainable in practice<\/a>; including how to embed an ethos of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.topsdaynurseries.co.uk\/sustainability-goals\/\">sustainability\u00a0<\/a>and bring children and staff along on the journey.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/3E--MLTA67I\">Click here to watch the full interview<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year,\u00a0Connect Childcare\u00a0launched a new blog series called \u2018Ask the Expert\u2019 \u2013 which provides a platform for all Early Years (EY) professionals to share their experiences and advice with the industry, on their chosen specialist subject. At the recent Childcare and Education Expo event they interviewed Cheryl Hadland, Founder and Managing Director of Tops [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7241,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-professional-development","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13068,"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7240\/revisions\/13068"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}