Being awarded Beacon council status for our early years service has been a mixed blessing. It is good to be recognised for the progress made in Newham over the past few years in creating the infrastructure for delivery. But it has also led to some people expecting answers to more difficult questions that swirl around early years policy. The principal question is finance.
How can we deliver this entire agenda when funding streams still have great holes in them in two years' time? How we can we employ people to implement Government legislation when we don't know what money will be available in the future?
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