Editor's view

By Liz Roberts, editor, Nursery World, 24 June 2004

Ofsted's report into the performance of Early Excellence Centres (News, page 6, last week) has highlighted some problems with leadership and management, an issue that is examined further in this week's Special Report, 'Leading questions', pages 10-11. It is not surprising that heads of centres have in some cases struggled to cope with integrating a complicated set of services and dealing with a raft of new initiatives, especially where such work has not already been a part of the centre's structure. Support from local authorities has also been insufficient.

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