
16. Joss Cambridge-Simmons, men in Early Years, and spreading the love
17/12/2025 | 40 mins.
Joss Cambridge-Simmons is a multi-award-winning nanny, Early Years educator, and the founder of Jossy Care. Joss is passionate about self care, mental health, well being, love, and of course, childcare and education. Joss is also a DJ as well as a writer and a speaker, and content creator - you can find him on all your favourite social media platforms. Joss is a 7 times award-winner and 16 times award-nominee, he recently won the Role Model of the Year 2025 at the Multicultural Inspire Awards - huge congratulations!Nanny Qhttps://www.instagram.com/the.singingnanny/?hl=enHealing Hands https://www.instagram.com/healinghandschildcare/?hl=enFemihttps://www.instagram.com/bistmorgan/?igsh=YjJ2dm1nb3cxbmpo#

15. Pete Moorhouse, creative development and making learning irresistible
12/11/2025 | 59 mins.
Pete is a professional sculptor, author, researcher, and trainer, and has a passion for creative education and woodwork in the Early Years. After working with a local nursery part-time, he fell for the Early Years and now runs Irresistible Learning, an Early Years Creative Consultancy. He is Chair of the Early Childhood Woodwork Association, and founder of the Big Bang Project, which advocates for woodwork provision in education.Pete's website:https://irresistible-learning.co.uk/resource/holistic-creativity-framework/

14. Cheryl Warren, celebratory SEND support, and Donald Duck impressions
29/10/2025 | 52 mins.
Cheryl has over thirty years of experience in the Early Years sector as a nanny, family support, LA advisor, SENCO, trainer, assessor, lecturer, and quality inspector. Cheryl was awarded ‘Trainer of the Year’ at the 2022 Nursery World Awards and has written a book called Neurodiversity in the Early Years. She does speaking, writing, and consultancy for parents and Early Years settings, as well as guesting on podcasts.Links:aperiontraining.co.ukinstagram.com/aperion_training/Book:Neurodiversity in the Early Years: Practical and Proven Strategies to Enable Neurodivergent Children to Thrive.

13. Jan Dubiel, creative compliance, and not calling it "play"
15/10/2025 | 44 mins.
Jan is an Early Years expert, consultant, trainer & writer. He is the Programme Director for hey! at Hempsall’s and, in 2018, the Times Educational Supplement named him as one of the ten most influential people in British education. He has decades of experience in the sector, as a Nursery, Reception and Year 1 teacher in schools across Britain and then leading teams as an Early Years coordinator. He is the former Head of National and International Development at Early Excellence, and now works as an independent speaker, consultant, trainer and author focusing on Early Years policy, pedagogy and practice.

12. Alistair Bryce-Clegg, promoting play, and purging plastic ivy
24/9/2025 | 1h 7 mins.
Dr. Alistair Bryce-Clegg, otherwise known as ABC, is an international early years consultant and trainer with three decades of experience in the sector. He's an author, a speaker, and author of the PlayList. He's advised the government's Education Select Committee on Early Years policy and practice and even the Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood. He has even had a debut on the TV in the BAFTA-winning Old People's Home for Four-Year-Olds.Email us at:[email protected] from the episode:https://abcdoes.com/



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