Educated guess?

Government efforts to improve service provision have left early years professionals highly critical of Ofsted's combined nursery inspections. Mary Evans finds out why Joined-up thinking was New Labour's slogan for improving service provision by challenging Government depart- ments and agencies to work together towards common goals. However, in the early years sector some of the combined cognitive processes seem to be confused and at times downright contradictory. Critics claim that Ofsted's new joint Children Act and nursery...