Ten out of ten?

How do leading representatives of the early education and childcare world rate Labour's efforts - and what else would they like to see done? Lesley Staggs, early years consultant and first-ever Foundation Stage director Nationally, it has been a groundbreaking time for the early years. Young children have stopped being 'pre' everything and now enjoy their right to have their own particular needs and interests recognised and met, first in the Foundation Stage, then in Birth To Three Matters and finally in the Early Years Foundation Stage. There was finally a recognition - backed by research   that what happened...