Opinion: To the point - Three wishes for our sector

Here are a few of my hopes for the sector during the coming year. My first wish - that children should be allowed a sensible period of childhood - may stand some chance of becoming reality. I am firmly of the opinion that we start formal education far too early. I am therefore heartened to read that Ed Balls recognises that starting primary school at little more than four years of age - a fact under the present system for most summer babies - should...