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Welcome to the Alliance blog, where you’ll find expert advice, best practice tips and ideas, thoughtful opinion pieces and successful case studies. For everyone who is passionate about the importance of Early Years.

Marketing your early years business: What's your USP?

Oct 24, 2019

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Alliance publications

Effective marketing is an essential tool to help fill current childcare places, continue to attract new customers in the future and ultimately to support a sustainable childcare business. Here we explore how you can let families know about your quality care.Read more

Gill Jones: Ofsted’s new inspections – what did we learn from the pilots?

Sep 26, 2019

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Policy

Between the launch of the Education Inspection Framework (EIF) consultation and the framework taking effect, Ofsted carried out more than 100 pilot visits to different types of early years settings. So what did they learn from them?Read more

Making your early years setting sustainable

Sep 12, 2019

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Alliance publications

Creating and developing a sustainable setting is not just about money, as important as that is, but requires leaders and managers to focus on all areas of the organisation. Read more