The education and childcare minister Elizabeth Truss announced the expansion of the programme at an event hosted by the Policy Exchange in London this morning.
Ms Truss said, ‘We want to see teachers and nurseries in the driving seat of improvement. As we see in schools, we want strong providers working with weaker providers in a school-led system.
'We’ve already got a network of teaching schools, but we want them to play a much larger role in the early years and we insist that they reach out to all providers.’
She added that there were now more than 100 teaching schools with nurseries and over 1,000 more schools with nurseries formally linked into teaching school alliances, as well as 16 nursery schools that are teaching schools.
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