Welcome to Inspirational Insights - The monthly modicum of meanderings from MBK Training. We find it hard to deal with change, like most people we presume, so when they changed the size and price of soft drinks, we had a good moan in the office. The sugar tax may be used to add £26 million to support breakfast clubs though, so that's something! But maybe some things should change; NCTs (SATs) in KS1 for example, or the amount of … [Read more...]

Welcome to Inspirational Insights - The monthly modicum of meanderings from MBK Training. Something we haven't talked much about in Inspirational Insights before, is just how hard it is to find staff at the moment! A recent survey by the NDNA shows that there are almost 20% less L3 qualified staff than there were in 2015. And with the 30 hours 'free childcare', nurseries are as poor as ever so this doesn't look set to … [Read more...]

Welcome to Inspirational Insights - The monthly modicum of meanderings from MBK Training. As is becoming the custom, after the second half of 2017, not a great deal has happened in the News. We had a reshuffle of the government, naming Damian Hinds (pictured) as the new Education Secretary. We will keep you informed how that works out! Without much news, we spent our time (or rather Matt spent his) writing about the key topics that … [Read more...]

Welcome to Inspirational Insights - The monthly modicum of meanderings from MBK Training. Christmas is fast approaching and we have had some cold days to remind us that it's officially winter. Or maybe that the weather has been colluding with Russia (which it denied when asked). Early Years looks set for some serious changes in the coming months and years. We heard from two prominent people, and they were both saying that the current … [Read more...]

Welcome to Inspirational Insights - The monthly modicum of meanderings from MBK Training. With 30 hours rolling out across the country (with reasonable success by all accounts) it's been a relatively quiet month from the news front (unless you include all the, rather depressing, Children's Centre closures). We did give you some more interesting blog content though, and if you haven't seen any of our blog posts this month (or signed … [Read more...]

Welcome to Inspirational Insights - The monthly modicum of meanderings from MBK Training. As you might have guessed already, the Childcare Expo took up most of our month. It was as fantastic as ever, but we did have some other news for you too. Our very own Marie Smith (SEND trainer on our current series of courses) wrote an article that might support any trips you are planning. We also wrote some short articles about school … [Read more...]

Welcome to Inspirational Insights - The monthly modicum of meanderings from MBK Training. Despite it being the holidays, we still found a few things going on in the world of Childcare. Remember, if you want to know when we post then you can register on the website.If you haven't seen it yet, then you should absolutely be checking out our Top 10 Tips for an Ofsted Inspection (written by an inspector of 16 years none-the-less!). We also … [Read more...]

Welcome to Inspirational Insights - The monthly modicum of meanderings from MBK Training. I figured we must have missed some news this month, but a quick google search tells me that apparently nothing much happened. It should feel good to be in position where Early Years hasn't hadn't any momentous changes for a month, but really it just feels a bit weird! We did notice this little report about 30 hours which, despite … [Read more...]

Welcome to Inspirational Insights - The monthly modicum of meanderings from MBK Training. The general election came and went and we managed to get ourselves in an even more confusing position than before. We could have a guess on the number of hours we will be providing for whatever age group going forward - but we would just be making it up. Hopefully once the dust settles then it will become a bit more obvious! With the … [Read more...]

Welcome to Inspirational Insights - The monthly modicum of meanderings from MBK Training. It's hard enough to write about the latest news without getting political at the best of times, but with a general election just one week away we gave up trying to avoid it. 30 hours is already on the horizon and causing (let's be gentle here) a bit of an issue with funding, so Labour's promise to roll this out to all 2 year olds is more … [Read more...]