The years of plenty are well and truly over and the years of famine are just beginning! The Government has thrown down its gauntlet with an early intervention grant that is not ring-fenced, so now we see which local authority really believes that giving every young child an opportunity of experiencing well-funded, high-calibre early years provision will enable those children to lift themselves out of the poverty trap when they are older.
We need to gather evidence of how much impact our particular services can make to children and their families and that information needs to be collected and collated in such a way that it gives a sense of what has really been achieved and is not just anecdotal.
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