BMIEY look forward to attending the MITEY North national conference, a flagship event taking place in Bradford. It will showcase a multi-agency focus on engaging men in the early years in order to improve outcomes for children. The conference aims to highlight the policy questions around gender imbalance in the early years’ workforce, and the growing need for the positive modelling of men as care-givers for boys and girls. The conference will be a significant step forward in

The network were fortunate enough to welcome Dr. Simon Brownhill, from the University of Cambridge, to deliver a session on ‘Male Role Models Revisited'. Simon’s research and experience in the early years is of real value to the network as practitioners respond to the recent suggestion that ‘young boys need to be rescued [by] a new kind of role model’. This interactive session critically explored the ambiguities of the ‘male role model’ in the early years by drawing on findin