cennjohn

Founder & CEO of the UK's first bilingual Mandarin-English early years education group, Hatching Dragons. Educationalist, Sinologue / phile. Views are my own

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A child in full-time nursery eats 500+ meals a year with us.

That's not catering. That's curriculum.

Why we employ a head chef, and what the science says children really learn at lunch 👇

https://t.co/Q4w4QbjvlV

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8/8 That’s the argument in this week’s newsletter: The Third Payer. If you lead HR, people or finance at a London employer: what would it take to make childcare part of your workforce infrastructure?

Read more: https://t.co/Gv2B3fYi3X

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1/8 The childcare cliff edge got the headlines this week @KemiBadenoch . But who pays for the floor? I run three London nurseries. Both parties want to help parents with childcare costs. Neither has answered the question: who funds the actual hour of care?

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7/8 The next step isn’t a promise that this solves everything. It’s an independently evaluated pilot—with real employer involvement, published results and safeguards against a two-tier system. Test the model. Be willing to learn where it fails.

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5/ Do that and childcare money goes into deposits, pensions and savings instead of fees. I'm at #CPC26 on Tuesday for small business day, making the case.
https://t.co/ImiMDAoa0b

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1/ Kemi Badenoch is right: the £100k childcare cliff edge punishes parents for earning more and has to go. But it's the first step, not the destination (@ftukpolitics https://t.co/EeADYne5PA).

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4/ Let big employers fund their own staff's childcare, and focus public money on small-firm workers, the self-employed, the low-paid and parents trying to get back into work. Every employer-funded place frees a state-funded one.

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@elonmuskmel7 Hope

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Don’t miss this powerful piece by Cennydd John — a bold rethink of private capital in UK childcare and how to build value, not just valuations.
From crisis to sustainable solutions, it’s a must-read.
#UKChildcare #EarlyYears #SocialImpact #HatchingDragons
https://t.co/cu3yCApYQ6

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Workplace Nursery Scheme UK: Choose the Right Bilingual Nursery
https://t.co/ZsKWJs6Ncr

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@Hyperoptic this is your superfast fibre in N16 London atm. We're on the 500MB / second DL package....firing 499MB / second less than what we pay for. #notinyourcorner

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My thoughts on the The Centre for Social Justice's report Lost boys. Time for us to hold them all close
https://t.co/pAKvp3mU4c

#LostBoys #Masculinity #Education #MentalHealth #Crime #ProgressiveMasculinity #YouthDevelopment

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The Slow Death of Focus
https://t.co/w1ew2UVwzk