Nursery World - Alternative Ulster

Early years provision is undergoing great changes in a land where change has almost become the norm, as James Tweed reports

Despite the suspension in February of the Northern Ireland Assembly barely two months into its existence, the myriad changes to life in the Province show little sign of slowing down. Gone are the security checkpoints and the once-familiar sights of British soldiers patrolling the streets of Belfast.

Gone too are the bombs which, at the height of the Troubles in the 1970s and 1980s, reduced much of central Belfast to car parks. Now the sites of these car parks are either plush new hotels or glamorous shopping complexes, or they will be soon, if the number of industrial cranes dotting the city's skyline are anything to go by.

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