Looking back on the Millennium year we can see that more early years policy developments were introduced than in the previous 20 years taken together.
A cause for celebration, surely, but marred by the bizarre DfEE decision last month to prohibit physical punishment in all daycare settings except childminders' homes. What could this decision reflect? Policy overload among ministers? If so, that strengthens the case for calling a moratorium on all new developments and for a period of consolidation to get new measures properly established.
Cavalier electioneering strategies? If so, let's remind the Government that the electorate encompasses experienced, knowledgeable and committed early years workers who, in many cases, are themselves parents.
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