In January 1989 the House of Commons Select Committee reported on the education of under-fives. This all-party report was welcomed by those in the early years sector. Its recommendations were never implemented.
Twelve years later we have a different Government and the recently published Select Committee report has a different flavour.But it is sad to see that the same concerns remain. One of the main ones is what I refer to as 'the English schooling malaise', where our youngest children are pulled away from childhood and into a system based on misunderstandings of how the brain functions and how learning takes place.
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