•Latest on the funding review
•School-based nurseries: opportunity or threat?
•Boosting the workforce: what’s the strategy?

• New five-point grading system – how it’s working so far
• Have inspections become more collaborative and less stressful for nurseries
• Can the new regime close the opportunity gap?

An incisive analysis of early years investment and policy, outlining key data and trends against the backdrop of new cost challenges, and the full roll-out of the ’30 Hours for Parents’

The discussion will include:
• Funding – what is needed now?
• Are changes to employment law and wages helping or hindering recruitment?
• Are more school-based nurseries a threat or opportunity?
· Do more school-based nurseries represent an opportunity or a threat?

• Gain insights into the pressing need for early years leaders to be proactive in harnessing AI for their businesses.
• Maximise AI’s potential to fuel your business
• How to prioritise staff training, embracing the ethics of early childhood education
• Why an AI policy is needed and what it should cover

• How the group devised and embedded its new curriculum
• What it has achieved to raise quality and children’s outcomes across the group

•Unlock your team’s potential by creating a psychologically safe workplace that improves retention, reduces absenteeism, prevents burnout and improves overall employee wellbeing
• Create a workplace where staff can collaborate and develop their careers

•What a cyber security plan looks like, including emergency response processes
•What staff training involves and how day-to-day operational challenges of delivering the training can be managed
•What level of investment is required for nurseries

The discussion will include:
•Why Investment in technology infrastructure in the early years sector is needed now
•What tech companies should be doing to support the early years sector
•Should nurseries be inspected on the robustness of their cyber-security?