The report, Early childhood education and care policy in the United Kingdom, is being officially launched in Stockholm today (Thursday) at a conference on early childhood education and care policy organised by the Ministry of Education and Science in Sweden and OECD. Completed last December, it takes an overview of early years policies in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The report traces how early education has evolved over the past 200 years from New Lanark, near Edinburgh, where Welshman Robert Owen founded the first infant and nursery schools in 1816.
The OECD report praises the progress Labour has made with its early years policies since 1997. It says, 'The review team was impressed with the Government's attempt to redress many years of neglect in the early childhood education and care field and to mobilise people and resources in the service of young children and their families.
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