Nursery World recently reported on calls to scrap the Early Years Foundation Stage made by the Centre for Policy Studies (CPS) ('Scrap EYFS and devolve Sure Start', 17 June), and in an accompanying editorial, editor Liz Roberts referred to the danger of our Open EYE campaign 'being appropriated by some to ridicule what some call "the nappy curriculum"'.
The track record of ideological think-tanks inspires little confidence that they will come up with policy recommendations that will enhance the quality of early years provision. In our view, the scrapping of the Early Years Foundation Stage in its entirety would be, at best, very premature without a genuinely open-minded, wide-ranging consultation with all stakeholders to determine which parts of the EYFS have been helpful in raising quality in the field, and which have not.
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