Think-tank questions early years policies

The Government's early years policies have been called into question in a new think-tank report . In the report, Comparing Pre-school Standards, published last week, the group Politiea asked whether the Government's policy of offering nursery education places to all four- and three-year-olds in England was the correct one. The report's authors - Caroline St John Brooks, former editor of Nursery World's sister publication the Times Educational Supplement, Chris Woodhead, the controversial former chief inspector of schools at Ofsted, and Professor Sig Prais of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research - examined evidence from other European countries as...