Talking Early Years with June O'Sullivan
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Talking Early Years with June O'Sullivan
An inspiring, outspoken speaker, author, podcaster and regular media commentator, Dr June O'Sullivan OBE is Chief Executive of the London Early Years Foundation (LEYF), one of London’s largest and most successful charitable social enterprises, operating 40+ award-winning nurseries in some of London’...
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Talking Early Years: June O'Sullivan and Ellen Sandseter
Risky Play or Not Risky Play - That is the Question!
Ellen Sandseter is a well-known professor at Queen Maud University College for Early Childh...
Talking Early Years: June O'Sullivan and Sue Egersdorff
The Power of Intergenerational Nurseries
In this podcast, I speak to Sue Egersdorff, co-founder of the intergenerational Ready Generations Nurse...
Talking Early Years: June O'Sullivan and Greg Bottrill
Are children deprived of the opportunity to play?...
...is not a new question, but one that continues to be tackled on many levels. Greg Bottril...
Talking Early Years: June O'Sullivan and Frank Cottrell-Boyce
If you have been frog marched through books, why would you ever read for pleasure? asks Frank Cottrell-Boyce, the Children’s Book Laureate.
The...
Talking Early Years: June O'Sullivan and Jools Page
Professional Love: The Beating Heart of Early Years Education and Care
On Valentine’s Day, there is much talk about romantic love, but we are t...
Talking Early Years: June O'Sullivan and Louise Hannan
Unpacking The Twoness of Twos
The Government has agreed to continue the roll out of funded places for two-year-olds, with talk of putti...
Talking Early Years: June O'Sullivan and Jen Singer
A Right to be Children: The Importance of the Design Architecture
The importance of architecture to Early Years is often misunderstood. The bui...
Talking Early Years: June O'Sullivan and Sarah Ronan
Sarah Ronan is the director of the Early Education and Childcare Coalition (EECC) – an organisation made up of 35 members which represent children, pa...
Talking Early Years: June O'Sullivan and Eunice Lumsden
There is a lot of concern about recently qualified staff who appear to find adjusting to the workplace a challenge and seem to have emerged with degre...
Talking Early Years: June O'Sullivan, Barbara Crowther and Jaynaide Powis
It seems strange that in 2024 parents feel the need to lead a campaign about healthy food, but with the help of the Children’s Food Campaign at Sustai...
Talking Early Years: June O'Sullivan and Ofsted (Wendy Ratcliff & Sam Sleeman-Boss)
Getting into your Ofsted Groove!
In this podcast I talk to Wendy Ratcliff and Sam Sleeman-Boss from Ofsted about the Big Listen, refreshed handb...
Talking Early Years: June O'Sullivan and Alison Clark
Slow Pedagogy
During Covid, the LEYF staff running our 15 nurseries for key workers had a call with me at 3pm every day. I looked forwa...
Talking Early Years: June O'Sullivan and Sally Hogg
Baby, It’s Time
Do you think babies are a focus of care and education policy enough? Do we have a baby policy blind spot? We think so!
Talking Early Years: June O'Sullivan and Professor Al Aynsley-Green
It’s fitting that this podcast is being aired on International Children’s Day because Sir Al is a huge advocate for children over his very busy and no...
Talking Early Years: June O'Sullivan and Prue Leith
In this podcast with Prue Leith, we discover that Prue’s approach to life is summed up by her autobiography, “I'd Try Anything Once” and the more she...
Talking Early Years: June O'Sullivan and Dr Ger Graus
“I see myself as the Benjamin Button of Education” In conversation with Dr Ger Graus.
The power of play is recognised within the Early Years se...
Talking Early Years: June O'Sullivan and Andy Keen-Downs
According to Barnardos, it is estimated that there are up to 310,000 children every year with a parent in prison in England and Wales. And for those c...
Talking Early Years: June O'Sullivan and Matt Arnerich
My first Podcast of 2024 is an interview with the very delightful Matt Arnerich, Director of Brand & Comms at Famly – an Early Childhood Platform that...
Talking Early Years: June O'Sullivan and Salas Balde
Workout to Help with Salas… and Bring Kindness to the World
Life is very serendipitous and leads to meeting some very engaging people who want...
Talking Early Years: What have Food Banks got to do with the Early Years?
As an organisation, we have always been involved with issues of poverty and it was interesting to find that back in 1926 we were involved with the Nat...
Talking Early Years: What’s Age Got to Do With It?
My guest, Stuart Lewis, CEO of Rest Less, began to think about another response after conversations with his dad about the length of retirement. He n...
Talking Early Years: Why are Men in Childcare such a rare species?
For International Men’s Day on the 19th November 2012, I invited as many men as I could find who worked in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) t...
Talking Early Years with June O'Sullivan: in conversation with Dr Will Norman
It is not every day you get to talk to the Mayor’s Walking & Cycling Commissioner, but this is exactly who I am talking to in this podcast.
Dr...
Talking Early Years: In conversation with Solitaire Townsend
Solitaire Townsend is a remarkable woman. She is one of the leading international voices on communicating sustainability. In 2001, she co-founded Fute...
Talking Early Years: In conversation with Sarah Ronan
Sarah Ronan, Director of the recently formed Early Education and Care Coalition (EECC) joined me to talk about the EECC. As a fellow Cork woman, she g...
Talking Early Years: Celebrating 120 Years at LEYF
The Year That is 2023 – This year, we are proud to celebrate 120 years of LEYF. It’s been fascinating to reflect back on what has changed over that ti...
Talking Early Years: June O'Sullivan and Stephen Gribben
I was introduced to coaching by Stephen Gribben many years ago. It was an interesting experience, and one I was not too sure how to make the best use...
Talking Early Years: Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things - Food Poverty with Alethea and Cheryl
What have Food Banks got to do with the Early Years?
This year, LEYF is celebrating 120 years of history. In doing so, we are reflecting on wha...
Talking Early Years: June O'Sullivan and Krupesh Hirani
June kicked off this year’s podcast chatting to the well-informed Krupesh Hirani, London Assembly Member for Brent and Chair of the London Assembly He...
Talking Early Years: June O'Sullivan and Teresa Heaney
Listen as Teresa Heaney, CEO of Early Childhood Ireland, explains how the Irish government has agreed to a number of positive actions following the pu...
Talking Early Years: June O'Sullivan and the LEYF Pedagogy Coaches
June has been using the word, ‘pedagogy’ for many years and is now beyond delighted that LEYF can employ Pedagogy Coaches to support its nurseries und...
Talking Early Years: June O'Sullivan and Mona Sakr
Celebrating the publication of their new book: Social Leadership in Early Childhood Education and Care: An Introduction, June and Mona sit down for a...
Talking Early Years: June O'Sullivan and Karen Lynch
Do you enjoy listening to an honest, funny, down to earth conversation? That sums up June's chat with serial social entrepreneur Karen Lynch. June m...
Talking Early Years: June O'Sullivan and Katherine Hill
Why is child poverty not on the agenda? It’s a horrible situation that doesn’t just affect the child but the wider society. In this podcast I am discu...
Talking Early Years: June O'Sullivan and Charlotte Riley
Whilst filming on-set with her newborn son, Charlotte Riley became very aware of how the lack of childcare was detrimental to the careers of so many w...
Talking Early Years: June O'Sullivan and Helen Garnett
Time to Put Empathy at the Heart of Pedagogy
June got to know Helen Garnett when she met her at an Empathy Lab event and was enthralled by her d...
Talking Early Years: June O'Sullivan and Norma Raynes
It was when June was talking at a conference about community engagement where she met Professor Norma Raynes. She is a lively, impassioned speaker wh...
Talking Early Years: June O'Sullivan and Leslee Udwin
Leslee Udwin is a film maker and founder of the organisation Think Equal. She is on a mission to achieve a global system change In Early Childhood Ed...
Talking Early Years: June O'Sullivan and Sonia Pombo
We all agree that child obesity is a complex issue and addressing it can seem overwhelming. Therefore, partnering and learning from others is crucial....
Talking Early Years: June O'Sullivan and Bikeworks
It was a chance conversation with Jim Blakemore that led to the beginning of what has now become a strong relationship between LEYF and Bikeworks and...