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TACTYC: Together And Committed To Young Children has long been an active member of the Early Years Coalition (EYC), working alongside sector partners to strengthen practice, research, and professional dialogue across early childhood education and care. Today, the Coalition launches the updated and expanded second edition of Birth to 5 Matters (Bto5M) a widely used, non-statutory guidance resource supporting the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS). The revised edition includes updated content...

The conversation around professional confidence is gaining momentum, but what does it actually look like in practice, and how does it enable change? It is important to connect these questions to a broader argument: that professional confidence is not an outcome, but a mechanism for improving practice and strengthening the sector. These ideas are explored in more depth in a new book, 10 Principles for Professional Confidence in Education – The Transformative Power of Believing in Yourself,...

The article argues that headlines claiming men shouldn’t work in nurseries reflect a persistent, harmful bias that frames male early-years educators as outsiders or threats, undermining their professionalism and depriving children of diverse role models. It calls on the sector to actively challenge this “groupthink” and hate speech, especially if ambitions like increasing the male workforce share by 2030 are to be met through better support, inclusion, and solidarity. Please see the link to...