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EYFS comes under attack by experts
By Catherine Gaunt,
Nursery World,
5 December 2007
A group of child development experts has launched a vehement attack on the Early Years Foundation Stage, claiming that it is 'fundamentally flawed' and will harm young children.
Richard House, a senior lecturer in psychotherapy and counselling at Roehampton University, London, and a trained Steiner kindergarten teacher, told Nursery World that the campaigners were against the EYFS being compulsory for all early years settings. He said, 'The Government is defining child development. It is bureaucratisation and audit mentality being brought into the early years.' Early years and childcare workers were only now becoming aware of the real implications of the...
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