June O’Sullivan OBE – Sustainability: practical ways to save the planet!

As it is the Big Green Week – we have invited Sustainability Champion June O’Sullivan back to share her thoughts about sustainability and practical ways to save the planet. During this session, June will:

• Consider what we mean by sustainability and how our decisions drive climate change;

• Introduce our duty to act and why early years is the best place to start the sustainability conversations;

• Share examples from practice against the three pillars as to what to do to become more sustainable and reduce our contribution to climate change;

• Offer an invitation to a community of practice to build a network of sustainability-informed staff and how this can help drive and anchor change to our practice so we become more sustainability-informed.

About the speaker
As CEO and creator of the UK’s leading childcare social enterprise, London Early Years Foundation, June continues to break new ground in the development of LEYF’s scalable social business model. She remains a tireless campaigner, looking for new ways to influence policy and make society a better place for all children and families. June developed the LEYF Pedagogy and champions community-based, multi-generational early years education as the basis for greater social and cultural capital to deliver long-term social impact. She continues to advise Governments as well as a range of organisations, academics and services at home and overseas about how best to implement a social enterprise vision for Early Years. June is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Trustee of The Book Trust, and her local library, Upper Norwood Library Trust. She is currently a member of the London Mayor’s Advisory Group on Child Healthy Weight and the Mayor’s Skills Partnership Board. June is a member of the Future of Westminster Commission. She has recently been appointed the Chair of the Hackney Commission into Affordable Childcare. June was awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday honours in 2013 for her services to London’s children, and on the 29th September 2023 it was announced that June had been awarded an OBE by His Majesty the King for her services to Education.

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