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Folders & Fear
The honest side of running a nursery: what keeps managers up at night, and what helped.
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Blog postLeadership & GovernanceThe day I couldn't find the complaints folderIt’s Halloween week, so let me tell you what scared me most in my years in the sector. It wasn’t ghosts. It was a folder I couldn’t find. 
Katerina Karnavou · 4 min · October 2026Blog postSafeguardingSafeguarding isn't a product. It's a pulseSafeguarding is showing signs of becoming another tokenistic industry, badges, apps, one-off training, all promising a quick fix. It was never meant to be a bolt-on. It's a pulse.Blog postLeadership & GovernanceLeadership and Governance in early yearsOfsted published its latest inspection data this month, covering November 2025 to March 2026 , the first data release under the renewed inspection framework. Across all six evaluation areas, one stood out and not for the right reasons.Katerina Karnavou · 6 min · August 2026Blog postSEND & inclusionWhat the SEND white paper actually means for nurseriesI've read a lot of government documents about the early years. Most of them are about us rather than for us, and you can usually tell within a page. This one is different, and I want to be specific about why.
Maggie Bolger · 6 min · August 2026Blog postOfsted & inspectionKeep calm and pass inspection: what Ofsted is really asking forThe new framework isn't asking settings to do more. It's asking them to be clearer. Maggie Bolger breaks down the September 2025 Ofsted framework. Calmly, clearly, and without jargon.Maggie Bolger · 4 min · March 2026Popular tagsFollow by RSS