Early years goals set out for Wales

The Welsh Assembly plans to expand and improve early years provision by boosting staff recruitment and training, guaranteeing part-time places for three-year-olds and introducing a statutory foundation stage for three-to seven-year-olds. In a speech last week to the Cardiff Nursery Nurse Support Group, Jane Davidson, education and lifelong learning minister, said, 'We will be working with our partners in both the maintained and non-maintained sectors as well as early years partnerships, to expand early years opportunities to provide good-quality half-time places for every three-year-old whose parents want this.