Opinion

Nutbrown Review: Not just a qualification!

Put young children first when responding to the final report from Nutbrown, says Chelle Davison, senior lecturer at Leeds Metropolitan University, chair of SEFDEY North East Region, and member of the expert panel for the Nutbrown Review

The education of our youngest children, the correct methods of guaranteeing good outcomes and the theory that underpins policy; all comes around in a constant cycle. An ever-changing and constant moving entity; ambitiously pushed and pulled, with each change in Government.

When Margaret McMillan took on the Government in the very early 1900s, she didn’t take the stand and say, ‘We would quite like good childcare for young children but if it costs too much we will settle for satisfactory’. Margaret McMillan changed the course of early childcare forever.

Foundations for Quality: The independent review of early education and childcare qualifications is an ambitious and long overdue review that has considered numerous aspects of education and care qualifications, as shown in the evidence supporting the recommendations.

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