Nursery World - Analysis: Scottish Early Years Framework - Early intervention tops political agenda

Scotland has set out an ambitious plan for improving young children's life chances, but without any new funding behind it. Ruth Thomson sizes up the bigger policy picture.

The Scottish Government is promising 'a new approach', 'a new conceptualisation' and 'a new level of ambition' for tackling age-old inequalities within Scottish society under its Early Years Framework (EYF), unveiled last month.

The new framework, developed in collaboration with independent experts over the past nine months, sets out the Government's vision for improving the life chances of Scotland's youngest children over the next ten years.

Significantly, the new framework is the first policy initiative devised under the Scottish Government's Concordat with the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (COSLA), an agreement in which the Government stated its intention to 'stand back from micro-managing' service delivery and 'free up local authorities and their partners to get on with the job'.

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