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Letter: Resources lacking for early years education
Nursery World,
2 August 2007
I note the plethora of letters, and the column by Alan Bentley ('To the point', 19 July), all bemoaning the failings of the Nursery Education Grant.
Unfortunately, as any student of economics will tell you, this is what happens when the forces of infinite demand (and free provision and entitlement is, almost by definition, going to lead to infinite demand) collide with finite resources. The result is rationing of one sort or another - either in terms of waiting lists for hospitals, or, in this case, the failure to provide sufficient funds to offset the true costs of the provision for early years education. Insisting that...
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