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The Early Years & Childcare Blog

Expert insights, practical tips, creative activities, ideas and inspiration to enhance your early years practice—explore it all on the Cheqdin Blog.

Recruiting Men in Early Years
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November 21, 2019

New Guide Calls on Employers to Rope in More Men into Early Years

The MITEY (Men In The Early Years) Guide to Recruiting Men into Early Years Education calls on early years employers to take ‘active measures’ to recruit more m...
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Creative advent activities for kids
cheqdin
November 18, 2019

Advent Activities for EYFS

Looking to steer children away from an overdose of chocolates that come camouflaged as advent calendars? Here are some brilliant DIY ideas to add a good sprinkle of...
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After School Payment Collection
cheqdin
November 14, 2019

How to Speed Up Your After School Payment Collection?

Asking for payments is never easy. But when you have a business to run and bills to pay, you can’t be left out of pocket for long. Here is a look at some of the b...
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Sustained Shared Thinking for early years foundation stage (EYFS)
cheqdin
November 11, 2019

What is Sustained Shared Thinking All About?

Sustained Shared Thinking. Another fancy term for something most educational practitioners do at their setting every day? Well, it is mentioned as one of the Chara...
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Parent referral scheme for childcare centres
cheqdin
November 07, 2019

How to Get Started with a Parent Referral Program for Your Childcare Centre?

Referral marketing is acknowledged as one of the most credible forms of advertising these days. According to a Nielsen Trust Survey, a whopping 92% of customers tru...
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cheqdin
November 04, 2019

Top 3 Things Childcare Providers Hate About Invoicing 

Creating each invoice from scratch Varying booking patterns, ad-hoc sessions, cancellations, late fees, funded hours…whew! It can be an absolute nightmare hoppin...
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Cheqdin Childcare News October 2019
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October 31, 2019

Cheqdin Childcare Digest – October 2019

With the Halloween Brexit staved off, and the UK set for yet another general election, this month could be setting the stage for some rather radical changes for the...
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Rules based invoicing for after school clubs and early years
cheqdin
October 28, 2019

But, What does Rules-Based Invoicing Really Mean?

We have been talking quite a lot about our rules-based Invoicing lately because we are, well, just so proud of how it’s all shaped up. When we first built our inv...
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Early years providers doing more paperwork than required
cheqdin
October 24, 2019

Early Years Providers Producing More Paperwork than Necessary

The vast majority of early years providers in the UK are producing more paperwork than required, according to a recent survey. The study carried out by Early Years ...
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In the Moment Planning or child initiated play
cheqdin
October 21, 2019

A Quick Guide to In the Moment Planning

The structure that comes with clearly planned out lessons and activity is comforting to many. But, chaotic as it might sound, 'In the moment planning’ (ITMP) come...
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