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.
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October 10, 2022
Effective Ways to Grow and Expand your Childcare Business
The importance of business growth and development seems like a no-brainer but understanding the level of success isn't always clear-cut. Many business coaches will te...
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September 22, 2022
Speech, Language and Communication in the Early Years
Children are actively learning how to communicate from the day they are born. Within a few short years, they will learn how to speak. Many will do so without effort at al...
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August 25, 2022
Early Minds Matter – Promoting Wellbeing in the Early Years
Although wellbeing is a term we frequently hear when discussing adults and teenagers, we don't consider it when addressing young children. We understand the impact of...
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July 29, 2022
Coding for Kids in the Early Years
Computer programming for kids is rapidly growing in popularity. As society continues to push into a technologically dependent society, there's no surprise that more p...
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June 23, 2022
Online Safety for Children – Safeguarding Children and Protecting Childcare Providers
Online safety refers to the actual act of staying safe online. It's typically called internet safety, cyber safety, or e-safety. This tactic incorporates all technolo...
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May 26, 2022
Health and Safety in Early Years Education
Maintaining health and safety within a nursery is critical to the highly vulnerable nature of all early years populations. As the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 speci...
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April 29, 2022
10 Tips for Introducing Geocaching in Schools and Out of School Clubs
As a free, family-friendly, fun option, geocaching is the perfect activity for getting outside and enjoying the weather. If you're tired of the same activities for th...
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March 31, 2022
Importance of Leadership in Childcare and Early Years Education
Leadership is a strong word that gets thrown around a lot, but many fail to incorporate key aspects into their centre. There's more to being a leader than simply adop...
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February 21, 2022
15 Ways to Increase Your Settings Childcare Occupancy Rate
Our previous blog covered effective ways to market your childcare business. But marketing your business is only one component of your childcare success. Childcare occupan...
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January 18, 2022
30 Ways to Market Your Childcare Business
Looking into childcare business marketing strategies for your business is often time-consuming and expensive. It seems there are countless options, both online and offlin...
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