Analysis: Free places for two-year-olds - More than an aspiration?

Nursery World, 1 October 2008

The Government has proposed extending the age range for free nursery education, before the issue of its financial impact on providers has been worked out. Simon Vevers hears what they think.

Outlining plans for an extension of free childcare places to every two-year-old on the eve of a critical party conference, against a backdrop of disastrous poll ratings and amid an air of fatalism in Labour ranks, was bound to leave Gordon Brown open to the charge of opportunism. But then examine his comments and the 'plans' are in fact only an 'aspiration', which suggests that they have not really...

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