Last year was a whirlwind time for the early years sector, including a general election, announcements on funding, and changes to qualifications and the inspection regime. 2016 is gearing up to be even more critical. Nursery World asked practitioners and early years experts about their hopes and fears for the coming year.
Neil Leitch
Chief executive, Pre-school Learning Alliance
With a consultation on a new national early years funding formula promised by the Department for Education, 2016 is likely to be one of the most significant years in the sector’s history.
While it’s undoubtedly positive that the Government has finally accepted the need to address historic underfunding issues and to increase investment into the sector, there are many questions still to be answered, such as how this investment will be distributed across local authorities, and what will be put in place to ensure this money does in fact reach practitioners on the front line.
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