Strategic planning: Taking the initiative

Can local authorities plan integrated early years services in the face of a profusion of new Government policies? Simon Vevers reports The Government extolled the virtues of service integration in its recent Green Paper Every Child Matters, but to early years practitioners the way in which its plethora of early years initiatives have been rolled out has often appeared anything but joined up. In spite of this contradiction, many local authorities have succeeded in forging partnerships and realising the...