The document, which was due to be launched by Early Childhood Action (ECA) at a conference in Winchester on Saturday, has been designed to support 'progressive early years practice' and challenge those aspects of the statutory framework for children from birth to five that some experts believe could harm children's development.
It builds on ECA's previous campaign work, specifically that the reform of the EYFS has not gone far enough, and that young children's development is being put at risk by Government policies that focus on 'school readiness' at the expense of seeing early childhood as a developmental phase in its own right.
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