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EYFS 'against human rights'
By Melanie Defries,
Nursery World,
4 June 2008
The Early Years Foundation Stage violates parents' human rights by denying them the freedom to choose how their children are educated, a coalition of England's independent schools has said in a letter to children's minister Beverley Hughes.
The letter from the Independent Schools Council (ISC), which represents 1,280 fee-paying schools, educating more than 500,000 children, was sent to Ms Hughes last month and leaked to the media last week. The ISC wrote, 'This clumsy intrusion into the early years curriculum of independent schools is both unjustified and unnecessary. More importantly, this interference conflicts with the rights of parents to privacy...
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