It should have been music to the early years sector’s ears. Back in July, as part of an inquiry into life chances, children and families minister Nadhim Zahawi told the Education Select Committee, ‘We have a spending review coming up and I see my role as very much working with the sector to put our best evidence forward.’ So why weren’t we all celebrating? Finally a minister willing to work with us to call on the Treasury to provide more funding.
Because this comment wasn’t about the early years sector as a whole, but rather, one specific part of it: maintained nursery schools.
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