Kevin Duggan
@kevinduggan1981.bsky.social
DoH SPPG Interim Commissioning Lead for Early Years (SureStart & Childcare Partnerships). Dad x 3 & Liverpool FC devotee! Is Feidir Linn!
The Childcare Partnership works to support a vibrant early years sector. This includes the many benefits of an Irish medium early years education brilliantly articulated in the video below #ChildcarePartnership
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Childcare Partnership - The Benefits of an Irish Medium Early Years Experience
YouTube video by Sure Start NI
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May 6, 2025 at 8:27 PM
The Childcare Partnership works to support a vibrant early years sector. This includes the many benefits of an Irish medium early years education brilliantly articulated in the video below #ChildcarePartnership
youtu.be/urEbZ5w4uvc?...
youtu.be/urEbZ5w4uvc?...
Great morning ahead with 120 guests speaking at the Southern Area Men's Health Group on how healthy relationships start in the early years - men and Dads have a vital role in children's health outcomes
March 13, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Great morning ahead with 120 guests speaking at the Southern Area Men's Health Group on how healthy relationships start in the early years - men and Dads have a vital role in children's health outcomes
Come join our fantastic SPPG Early Years team as a Childcare Partnership Manager! A role that makes a real difference to children's lives in NI!! #ChildcarePartnership #SureStartWorks #EarlyYearsMatters
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Childcare Partnership Manager - HSCNI Jobs
Salary: Band 8a (£50,952 - £57,649)
jobs.hscni.net
March 11, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Come join our fantastic SPPG Early Years team as a Childcare Partnership Manager! A role that makes a real difference to children's lives in NI!! #ChildcarePartnership #SureStartWorks #EarlyYearsMatters
jobs.hscni.net/Job/40108/ch...
jobs.hscni.net/Job/40108/ch...
Brilliant to watch Ryan's journey from Estate Agent to becoming an Early Year Professional !!! Our sector and more importantly, our children need men in the early years!
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Estate Agent to Early Years Educator: Ryan’s Journey | How To Love Your Job | Channel 4
YouTube video by Channel 4
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March 10, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Brilliant to watch Ryan's journey from Estate Agent to becoming an Early Year Professional !!! Our sector and more importantly, our children need men in the early years!
youtube.com/watch?v=Kk1Z...
youtube.com/watch?v=Kk1Z...
Looking forward to being key note speaker at Southern Area Men's Health Group
annual Men’s Health Seminar ‘Strong Foundations - Healthy Relationships Matter’. Focus on how healthy relationships start in early yrs & how Dads & main men in kid's lives make a life long difference
annual Men’s Health Seminar ‘Strong Foundations - Healthy Relationships Matter’. Focus on how healthy relationships start in early yrs & how Dads & main men in kid's lives make a life long difference
March 6, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Looking forward to being key note speaker at Southern Area Men's Health Group
annual Men’s Health Seminar ‘Strong Foundations - Healthy Relationships Matter’. Focus on how healthy relationships start in early yrs & how Dads & main men in kid's lives make a life long difference
annual Men’s Health Seminar ‘Strong Foundations - Healthy Relationships Matter’. Focus on how healthy relationships start in early yrs & how Dads & main men in kid's lives make a life long difference
Tá mé ag foghlaim go leor Gaeilge. Tá sé spraoi ach deacair!
February 24, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Tá mé ag foghlaim go leor Gaeilge. Tá sé spraoi ach deacair!
Day 2 of our early years event with DanWuori ....160 EY professionals celebrating their role as baby brain builders #ChildcarePartnership
February 20, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Day 2 of our early years event with DanWuori ....160 EY professionals celebrating their role as baby brain builders #ChildcarePartnership
Delighted to be opening our DanWuori Early Years Policy Event in Stormont! #EarlyYearsMatters #ChildcarePartnership
February 20, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Delighted to be opening our DanWuori Early Years Policy Event in Stormont! #EarlyYearsMatters #ChildcarePartnership
Highly recommend this brilliant book! Retelling the Huckleberry Finn story through the eyes of Jim
January 24, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Highly recommend this brilliant book! Retelling the Huckleberry Finn story through the eyes of Jim
Children facing a ‘happiness recession’ says laureate Frank Cottrell-Boyce highlighting the ‘enormous disadvantage’ handed to children without access to books, and call on government to improve early-years literacy
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Children facing a ‘happiness recession’ says laureate Frank Cottrell-Boyce
Author will highlight the ‘enormous disadvantage’ handed to children without access to books, and call on government to improve early-years literacy
www.theguardian.com
January 22, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Children facing a ‘happiness recession’ says laureate Frank Cottrell-Boyce highlighting the ‘enormous disadvantage’ handed to children without access to books, and call on government to improve early-years literacy
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
Looking forward to our next jointly hosted #ChildcarePartnership event celebrating the power of the early years!
January 21, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Looking forward to our next jointly hosted #ChildcarePartnership event celebrating the power of the early years!
The death of Facebook and Instagram...they will now become just as bad a X/Twitter
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Meta to replace 'biased' fact-checkers with moderation by users
Meta says its platforms will instead rely on
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January 7, 2025 at 3:49 PM
The death of Facebook and Instagram...they will now become just as bad a X/Twitter
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Reposted by Kevin Duggan
“Everyone in positions of influence should ask themselves the question: are you treating those fighting to save the planet more harshly than those fighting for inherited wealth? If so, why?”
@josiah.writes.news
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Two-Tier Reporting: When Climate Protesters Slow Ambulances They’re Vilified, So Why Are Wealthy Farmers Given a Free Pass?
Media outlets rush to condemn climate change campaigners as "middle class" protesters causing "chaos" while ignoring greater disruption by millionaire landowners
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December 13, 2024 at 8:19 AM
“Everyone in positions of influence should ask themselves the question: are you treating those fighting to save the planet more harshly than those fighting for inherited wealth? If so, why?”
@josiah.writes.news
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@josiah.writes.news
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Holly - Seamus Heaney
December 12, 2024 at 9:01 PM
Holly - Seamus Heaney
When you've been lovely feeding your Xmas Cake since September but your 4 yr old is in charge of decorating and the theme is a gingerbread man/Paw Patrol in an Xmas forest theme! 🫣
December 10, 2024 at 7:24 PM
When you've been lovely feeding your Xmas Cake since September but your 4 yr old is in charge of decorating and the theme is a gingerbread man/Paw Patrol in an Xmas forest theme! 🫣
A Boss verses a Leader .
December 9, 2024 at 9:18 AM
A Boss verses a Leader .
Our fantastic Key note speakers Edel Quinn from Middletown Autism Centre & Rachel Wright from "Don't Call me Mum" at today's Childcare Partnership Conference: "All Different, All Equal- Developing Inclusive Practice for Children with Additional Needs" #ChildcarePartnership
December 4, 2024 at 8:56 AM
Our fantastic Key note speakers Edel Quinn from Middletown Autism Centre & Rachel Wright from "Don't Call me Mum" at today's Childcare Partnership Conference: "All Different, All Equal- Developing Inclusive Practice for Children with Additional Needs" #ChildcarePartnership
Delighted as Chair of Childcare Partnership to open today's CCP event on developing inclusive practice for children with additional needs
Fascinating presentation from Edel Quinn,Middletown Autism Centre on importance of being neuro-affirming practitioner #ChildcarePartnership
Fascinating presentation from Edel Quinn,Middletown Autism Centre on importance of being neuro-affirming practitioner #ChildcarePartnership
December 3, 2024 at 10:08 AM
Delighted as Chair of Childcare Partnership to open today's CCP event on developing inclusive practice for children with additional needs
Fascinating presentation from Edel Quinn,Middletown Autism Centre on importance of being neuro-affirming practitioner #ChildcarePartnership
Fascinating presentation from Edel Quinn,Middletown Autism Centre on importance of being neuro-affirming practitioner #ChildcarePartnership
Top 20% of earners make up 60% of those to use shared parental leave......family friendly policies cannot solely be an option for the weathly!
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Shared parental leave ‘failing working families’
The government is reviewing the policy but campaigners say the current system is
www.bbc.co.uk
December 2, 2024 at 6:27 PM
Top 20% of earners make up 60% of those to use shared parental leave......family friendly policies cannot solely be an option for the weathly!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Reposted by Kevin Duggan
What is so great about Bluesky is seeing all of the people I like and admire. That I actually see their posts because my feed isn’t full of Elon amplified right-wing MAGA fascism.
December 1, 2024 at 8:55 PM
What is so great about Bluesky is seeing all of the people I like and admire. That I actually see their posts because my feed isn’t full of Elon amplified right-wing MAGA fascism.
Yet more evidence that “teaching to the test” doesn't work. In the early years we need to ensure the focus is on play, and as they get older reading for fun!
Phonics screening check: why test taken by 6yrs in England isn’t needed
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Phonics screening check: why test taken by 6yrs in England isn’t needed
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Phonics screening check: why this test taken by six-year-olds in England just isn’t needed
This assessment is high-stakes for schools – but children’s reading isn’t improving.
theconversation.com
November 30, 2024 at 1:02 PM
Yet more evidence that “teaching to the test” doesn't work. In the early years we need to ensure the focus is on play, and as they get older reading for fun!
Phonics screening check: why test taken by 6yrs in England isn’t needed
theconversation.com/phonics-scre...
Phonics screening check: why test taken by 6yrs in England isn’t needed
theconversation.com/phonics-scre...
Really looking forward to our next Childcare Partnership Conference!
Please share!
🗓️3rd December 2024
⏰9.30am- 3.30pm
🏢Malone House, Belfast
Book Here : bit.ly/4fBq7Yc
#InclusivePractice #ChildcarePartnership
Please share!
🗓️3rd December 2024
⏰9.30am- 3.30pm
🏢Malone House, Belfast
Book Here : bit.ly/4fBq7Yc
#InclusivePractice #ChildcarePartnership
November 27, 2024 at 7:27 AM
Really looking forward to our next Childcare Partnership Conference!
Please share!
🗓️3rd December 2024
⏰9.30am- 3.30pm
🏢Malone House, Belfast
Book Here : bit.ly/4fBq7Yc
#InclusivePractice #ChildcarePartnership
Please share!
🗓️3rd December 2024
⏰9.30am- 3.30pm
🏢Malone House, Belfast
Book Here : bit.ly/4fBq7Yc
#InclusivePractice #ChildcarePartnership