Time to acknowledge our caring side

Prime minister Tony Blair recently said that there would be free education for two-year-olds, then corrected himself and referred to 'early years care'. So even people at the top appear to think of the early years purely as a learning process. When Ian Everitt (In My View, 1 April) wrote to the Government and asked why the early years was not seen as a profession, a civil servant told him it was not a graduate profession. We early years professionals all know it is not a graduate profession - but it deserves to be counted as one. We also know...