The party claimed that inequalities in British society stem from the lack of proper early years education and maintained that better-off children with greater stimulus from home, pre-school play-groups or nursery schools have a flying start at primary school.
Its manifesto promises to address these issues by funding 1,000 early years specialists to work with early years partnerships to provide that stimulus, setting up a budget to fund courses and extra supply teachers to cover those in training, and increasing funding for outdoor nursery facilities.
The Liberal Democrats also plan to strengthen the links between home and school as a crucial part of children's early development. They emphasise the early years curriculum, gearing it towards facilitating intellectual, emotional, and social development and ensuring that play is recognised as a key component of the process.
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