Nursery World - Editor’s view

I think we can all sympathise with Brenda, whose exasperated reaction to being told that Theresa May had called an election went viral.

‘You’re joking! Not another one!’ she said. ‘There’s too much politics going on at the moment.’ Too much politics and not enough policy moving us in the right direction, it could be said.

Although the time until voting day is mercifully brief, government effectively ceases and nothing but electioneering will happen. And Brexit will be the main focus, whatever efforts the Labour Party make to bring education and health to the attention of the nation.

Following the election, Brexit will also be to the fore to the detriment of other matters, including early years. The 30 hours policy will roll on, of course, a lumbering folly in the view of many. The Department for Education guidance on 30 hours for providers and councils was pushed out and the Tax-Free Childcare and 30 hours registration system for parents launched before the election shutdown, but few new ideas can be expected for the next few years.

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