{"id":18259,"date":"2025-06-26T10:29:52","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T09:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/?p=18259"},"modified":"2025-06-26T13:17:53","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T12:17:53","slug":"congratulations-to-little-ducklings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/congratulations-to-little-ducklings\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to Little Ducklings!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.littleducklingstopsham.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Little Ducklings Nursery Devon Ltd<\/a> have won an award for \u2018Small Employer of the Year\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The award was given to recognise the support of employers and their apprentices in the childcare sector and also to recognise the hard work employers do to encourage new people into the sector at a time when recruitment is so challenging.<\/p>\n<p>The award was part of the Exeter College Apprentice and Employer awards recent ceremony at Sandy Park. The Devon Early Years and Childcare Service would like to congratulate Little Ducklings and thank them for all they do to support the children in their settings. Well done!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-18260 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/96\/2025\/06\/Little-ducklings-800x588.png\" alt=\"Little Ducklings pick up their award for small employer of the year.\" width=\"800\" height=\"588\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/96\/2025\/06\/Little-ducklings-800x588.png 800w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/96\/2025\/06\/Little-ducklings-300x221.png 300w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/96\/2025\/06\/Little-ducklings-768x565.png 768w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/96\/2025\/06\/Little-ducklings.png 956w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Image above: Donna May from Little Ducklings Nursery collect the award for &#8216;Small Employer of the Year&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Little Ducklings Nursery Devon Ltd have won an award for \u2018Small Employer of the Year\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-18 05:06:44","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18259"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18262,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18259\/revisions\/18262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}