Helping Early years practitioners Apply Research to Teaching and learning

An exciting new partnership, working collaboratively with Birmingham Local Authority, BEYN and all 27 Maintained Nursery Schools to continue to build on and strengthen our existing support for early years within Birmingham and beyond. 


Visit our Stronger Practice Hub page on the national NCB website

Heart Midlands Stronger Practice Hub 

The Midland’s Stronger Practice Hub Partnership consists of:

• Bloomsbury Nursery School

• Norton Hall Children and Family Centre

• Weoley Castle Nursery School

• LMC Childcare Solutions

Local Authorities covered: 

Birmingham, Coventry, Herefordshire, Solihull, Warwickshire, Worcestershire

You can find more information about the programme on the national Stronger Practice Hubs website.

What’s involved?

The DfE have announced that early years stronger practice hubs will continue to be funded until at least March 2026.

We will support other nurseries and childminders in their area to adopt evidence-based practice improvements by:

• Building on and strengthening local networks of early years educators to share knowledge and effective practice

• proactively sharing information and advice on evidence-based approaches - for example, through newsletters, blogs and social media

• acting as a point of contact for bespoke advice and signposting to other funded support

• working with the EFF to select evidence-based programmes to fund and make available to nurseries and childminders.

Please feel free to view and download the DfE’s privacy notice for the Stronger Practice Hubs programme.

We also lead on Birmingham Early Years Networks for the Ladywood District. It is a place to build professional partnerships in order to develop pedagogical practice to improve educational outcomes for the young children of Birmingham. 

Find out more here: Birmingham Early Years Networks