Company Name
Acorn Early Years

Website URL
https://www.acornearlyyears.org.uk/

Company Industry
Child Day Care Services, Education

Departments Hiring For
Education

Company Profile

Acorn Early Years is a charitable social enterprise providing early years care and education, with 17 day nurseries in Milton Keynes, Northamptonshire and Bedfordshire, as well as several out-of-school clubs, extensive forest school provision, a catering service and a training centre. Acorn works towards a vision of a more caring and connected society by operating a cross-subsidy model. This approach enables an increasing number of children from areas of social deprivation to access the same high-quality childcare and early years education as other children.

Simultaneously, Acorn’s social impact captures the growth of family partnerships, community embeddedness, engagement with nature and the continuous professional development of the early years workforce. The practice across all of Acorn’s settings is embedded in relational pedagogy with a strong focus on an ethic of care and a reflective approach. These combined elements make Acorn one of just a few childcare groups in the UK which operate in this ethical and sustainable way