Nursery World - Network Whispers (1)

Nursery World and NDNA join forces for a behind-the-scenes column

1. INTERGENERATIONAL TANTRUMS

Do parents regress when at school? One case study in a report evaluating universal infant free school meals reads, ‘When children do not want to eat the food on their trays, some throw it on the floors under the tables. When parents have visited the schools, staff have noted that parents do this too with food they do not want to eat.’

2. TIGHTS IN A TWIST

Rumours have abounded that members of the DfE’s T Level panels have been contractually barred from talking to the press, rendering it even harder to unpick what these panels actually do. When we asked the DfE, they were perplexed. Having gone through these contracts at our request, the DfE has confirmed that there are no such restrictions. What’s more, these panel members are in fact skills superheroes, acting as ‘ambassadors’ for the programme.

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