Analysis: Children's plan - Are they listening?

Nursery World, 11 June 2008

The Government's policies for children promise a brighter future, but are they likely to deliver what families really want and need? Professor Priscilla Alderson takes a critical view.

The Government set out its ten-year Children's Plan: Building Brighter Futures last December, with £1bn to spend over the next three years to improve services and outcomes for children in England. One aim is to 'halve child poverty by 2010 and eradicate it by 2020'. Another aim is that every child will be 'ready for success in school, with at least 90 per cent of children developing well across all areas of...

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