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Editor's view
By Liz Roberts, editor,
Nursery World,
29 July 2004
It is surely time for central Government to get a grip on what is happening locally with state-funded Sure Start programmes and neighbourhood nurseries being set up on the doorstep of existing private provision (see Special Report, pages 10-11). Although the Department for Education and Skills continues to say that the private sector is an important part of early years and childcare policy and that local authorities should not launch in competition with other settings, it is increasingly obvious that some areas are ignoring this. The DfES too is somewhat equivocal in its assurances.
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