Gill Jones MBE

Chair of the Early years professional community and Group Chief Quality Officer and Safeguarding Lead, Busy Bees Nurseries

Gill works for Busy Bees Nurseries as their international lead for quality and safeguarding. She also leads the CST Professional Community for Early Years. Until recently, Gill was the deputy director for schools and early education at Ofsted, where she was responsible for school inspection policy, the curriculum unit, SEND, early years regulation and inspection, ITE, literacy and inspector training. She also led on the inspection of reading and worked closely with the DfE English hubs. As a HMI, she inspected schools, children's centres, SEND, local authorities and early years settings. Before joining Ofsted, she was a headteacher of several primary schools. Her specialist subjects are English, particularly the teaching of reading, and music.

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1 Main programme

Case study: Attendance - How can we build positive habits early?

Through a practical case study from Forest Academy, drawing on insights from the hub’s wider schools network, this session will explore the targeted interventions, whole-school approaches, and mindset shifts that have driven measurable improvements in Reception attendance. Attendees will take away strategic insights and practical examples to support early engagement with families and nurseries, to build positive habits from the very start.