Nursery World - MPs ask to meet early years representatives

* The Select Committee on Education and Employment has invited representatives from five early years organisations and settings to discuss the Government's response to its report on the early years sector. The meeting at Portcullis House, Westminster, on 25 April will be addressed by Richard Dorrance, chief executive of CACHE, Gill Haynes, chief executive of the National Childminding Association, Pam Bolton of Handsworth Community Nursery in Sheffield, Rosie Roberts of the PEEP project in Oxford, and Margy Whalley of Pen Green Centre for Under-Fives in Corby, Northants.

The meeting at Portcullis House, Westminster, on 25 April will be addressed by Richard Dorrance, chief executive of CACHE, Gill Haynes, chief executive of the National Childminding Association, Pam Bolton of Handsworth Community Nursery in Sheffield, Rosie Roberts of the PEEP project in Oxford, and Margy Whalley of Pen Green Centre for Under-Fives in Corby, Northants.

A Select Committee spokesman said, 'We have invited these people to discuss with us a follow-up response to the Government's response to our report and to give us feedback to our report published in January. Our chair, Barry Sheerman, feels very strongly that we should be accountable.'

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