The Government should recognise the invaluable work of pre-schools, especially in the most disadvantaged areas, where they support families and parents while providing early years education, says a new report from the Pre-school Learning Alliance. But it warns that ministers should be realistic about what they can expect such small organisations to achieve under the welfare-to-work programme.
The Impact of Pre-Schools in the Community, published this week, is a follow-up study to research commissioned by the PLA in 1999 on the extent to which pre-schools contribute to the strengthening of local communities in disadvantaged areas.
It revisits seven settings in areas of social and economic disadvantage in England which featured in the original study, The Contribution of Pre-Schools to the Community, and looks at the impact of policy developments and social changes on their funding and role in the intervening years.
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