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DoH SPPG Interim Commissioning Lead for Early Years (SureStart & Childcare Partnerships). Dad x 3 & Liverpool FC devotee! Is Feidir Linn!

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Childcare Partnership - The Benefits of an Irish Medium Early Years Experience
YouTube video by Sure Start NI Childcare Partnership - The Benefits of an Irish Medium Early Years Experience

The Childcare Partnership works to support a vibrant early years sector. This includes the many benefits of an Irish medium early years education brilliantly articulated in the video below #ChildcarePartnership

youtu.be/urEbZ5w4uvc?...

06.05.2025 20:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Great morning ahead with 120 guests speaking at the Southern Area Men's Health Group on how healthy relationships start in the early years - men and Dads have a vital role in children's health outcomes

13.03.2025 10:07 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
Childcare Partnership Manager - HSCNI Jobs Salary: Band 8a (Β£50,952 - Β£57,649)

Come join our fantastic SPPG Early Years team as a Childcare Partnership Manager! A role that makes a real difference to children's lives in NI!! #ChildcarePartnership #SureStartWorks #EarlyYearsMatters

jobs.hscni.net/Job/40108/ch...

11.03.2025 11:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Estate Agent to Early Years Educator: Ryan’s Journey | How To Love Your Job | Channel 4
YouTube video by Channel 4 Estate Agent to Early Years Educator: Ryan’s Journey | How To Love Your Job | Channel 4

Brilliant to watch Ryan's journey from Estate Agent to becoming an Early Year Professional !!! Our sector and more importantly, our children need men in the early years!

youtube.com/watch?v=Kk1Z...

10.03.2025 08:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Looking forward to being key note speaker at Southern Area Men's Health Group
annual Men’s Health Seminar β€˜Strong Foundations - Healthy Relationships Matter’. Focus on how healthy relationships start in early yrs & how Dads & main men in kid's lives make a life long difference

06.03.2025 19:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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TΓ‘ mΓ© ag foghlaim go leor Gaeilge. TΓ‘ sΓ© spraoi ach deacair!

24.02.2025 19:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Day 2 of our early years event with DanWuori ....160 EY professionals celebrating their role as baby brain builders #ChildcarePartnership

20.02.2025 16:04 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Delighted to be opening our DanWuori Early Years Policy Event in Stormont! #EarlyYearsMatters #ChildcarePartnership

20.02.2025 16:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Yes especially if your beach is beside the nuclear power in California that is the first target in the books nuclear war scenario 🀣

24.01.2025 19:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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This is it...one of best books I've read in years!

24.01.2025 13:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm learning the hard way 🀣 last book was a Sunday Times best seller on how a Nuclear War plays out in real time it was brilliant....but was left thinking a need to read something about puppies to cheers me up 🀣

24.01.2025 12:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Loved it Kerry, I'm not a massive fiction reader but new year resolution is to avoid political books for a while !

24.01.2025 10:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Highly recommend this brilliant book! Retelling the Huckleberry Finn story through the eyes of Jim

24.01.2025 09:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Children facing a β€˜happiness recession’ says laureate Frank Cottrell-Boyce Author will highlight the β€˜enormous disadvantage’ handed to children without access to books, and call on government to improve early-years literacy

Children facing a β€˜happiness recession’ says laureate Frank Cottrell-Boyce highlighting the β€˜enormous disadvantage’ handed to children without access to books, and call on government to improve early-years literacy

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

22.01.2025 07:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Looking forward to our next jointly hosted #ChildcarePartnership event celebrating the power of the early years!

21.01.2025 18:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Meta to replace 'biased' fact-checkers with moderation by users Meta says its platforms will instead rely on

The death of Facebook and Instagram...they will now become just as bad a X/Twitter

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

07.01.2025 15:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Two-Tier Reporting: When Climate Protesters Slow Ambulances They’re Vilified, So Why Are Wealthy Farmers Given a Free Pass? Media outlets rush to condemn climate change campaigners as "middle class" protesters causing "chaos" while ignoring greater disruption by millionaire landowners

β€œEveryone in positions of influence should ask themselves the question: are you treating those fighting to save the planet more harshly than those fighting for inherited wealth? If so, why?”
@josiah.writes.news

bylinetimes.com/2024/12/12/t...

13.12.2024 08:19 β€” πŸ‘ 4790    πŸ” 1760    πŸ’¬ 136    πŸ“Œ 61
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Holly - Seamus Heaney

12.12.2024 21:01 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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When you've been lovely feeding your Xmas Cake since September but your 4 yr old is in charge of decorating and the theme is a gingerbread man/Paw Patrol in an Xmas forest theme! 🫣

10.12.2024 19:24 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A Boss verses a Leader .

09.12.2024 09:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Our fantastic Key note speakers Edel Quinn from Middletown Autism Centre & Rachel Wright from "Don't Call me Mum" at today's Childcare Partnership Conference: "All Different, All Equal- Developing Inclusive Practice for Children with Additional Needs" #ChildcarePartnership

04.12.2024 08:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Delighted as Chair of Childcare Partnership to open today's CCP event on developing inclusive practice for children with additional needs

Fascinating presentation from Edel Quinn,Middletown Autism Centre on importance of being neuro-affirming practitioner #ChildcarePartnership

03.12.2024 10:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Shared parental leave β€˜failing working families’ The government is reviewing the policy but campaigners say the current system is

Top 20% of earners make up 60% of those to use shared parental leave......family friendly policies cannot solely be an option for the weathly!

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

02.12.2024 18:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What is so great about Bluesky is seeing all of the people I like and admire. That I actually see their posts because my feed isn’t full of Elon amplified right-wing MAGA fascism.

01.12.2024 20:55 β€” πŸ‘ 565    πŸ” 44    πŸ’¬ 26    πŸ“Œ 1

"And now you're gonna believe us!!" #YNWA

01.12.2024 19:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Phonics screening check: why this test taken by six-year-olds in England just isn’t needed This assessment is high-stakes for schools – but children’s reading isn’t improving.

Yet more evidence that β€œteaching to the test” doesn't work. In the early years we need to ensure the focus is on play, and as they get older reading for fun!

Phonics screening check: why test taken by 6yrs in England isn’t needed

theconversation.com/phonics-scre...

30.11.2024 13:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Really looking forward to our next Childcare Partnership Conference!
Please share!
πŸ—“οΈ3rd December 2024
⏰9.30am- 3.30pm
🏒Malone House, Belfast
Book Here : bit.ly/4fBq7Yc
#InclusivePractice #ChildcarePartnership

27.11.2024 07:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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From Sure Start to youth centres, cutting children’s services is a false economy | Torsten Bell Research reveals that Tessa Jowell’s programme not only helped early years children but went on to reduce youth crime

From Sure Start to youth centres, cutting children’s services is a false economy

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

25.11.2024 20:41 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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