Government treatment of early years sector 'unforgivable'
Catherine Gaunt
Wednesday, June 16, 2021
Early Years Alliance chief executive Neil Leitch has said the Government’s treatment of early years settings during the pandemic was ‘unforgivable’ and vowed to continue to put pressure on ministers for more funding for the sector.
![Neil Leitch, chief executive, Early Years Alliance, said the early years sector had been treated as 'an afterthought' by the Government during the Covid crisis](/media/219214/neil-leitch.jpg?&width=780&quality=60)
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