Welcome to 2011, which promises to be a hugely important year for the shortand medium-term future of early years education and childcare.
A read through our Analysis piece on the hopes and fears that a wide range of sector representatives have for the year ahead shows great consistency of opinions (see pages 12-14). The cuts to local authority funding and the likely destructive effects to young children's services are obviously top of mind.
More specifically, it is evident that difficulties with the Single Funding Formula for the free entitlement could reach crisis point this year. Nursery owners in our feature warn of settings going out of business and even 'the implosion of the entire system'!
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