Editor's view

The Government's need to tackle secondary education in its second term of office is obviously pressing, but its feeling that the early years sector is now all hunky-dory - education secretary Estelle Morris saying, 'We delivered and it worked' - should be resisted. The early years sector is at a crucial stage of development. Among the issues that still need to be given attention and funding is the recruitment crisis - just where are all the people to staff the expansion going to come from, and how are they going to be paid the kind of money that will keep...