Last week the Labour party outlined their plans for graduate-led nurseries to help fight inequality in early years education.
Within a couple of days, the Conservative MP for Penistone and Stocksbridge, Miriam Cates, had roundly condemned the policy in a Telegraph article calling it ‘a sinister attack on the role of parents’.
It is hard for me to understand her position. I have worked in early years for well over 20 years and have witnessed at first hand through my community-based work and my work in higher education how transformational high quality early years provision can be for children and families.
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