Nursery World - Call for policies rethink by Labour

Leading early years specialists have strongly criticised the Government over its approach to the early years, pointing out how the sector is suffering from 'policy overload' and that rather than being child-centred, Labour's policies are being driven by 'the imperatives of other major Government projects'. Writing separately in this week's Nursery World, Eva Lloyd, chief executive of the National Early Years Network, and Professor Peter Moss of the Thomas Coram Institute at the University of London's Institute of Education both called for a period of reassessment.

Writing separately in this week's Nursery World, Eva Lloyd, chief executive of the National Early Years Network, and Professor Peter Moss of the Thomas Coram Institute at the University of London's Institute of Education both called for a period of reassessment.

Ms Lloyd said there needed to be a Government moratorium on all new initiatives in the sector, which has seen more early years policy developments in the past 12 months than in the previous 20 years. She asked whether the recent Government decision to allow childminders to smack and smoke reflected 'policy overload' in this regard, and added, '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 embedded and to find out what works.'

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