Ms Kelly made her first public address to the early years workforce at a Daycare Trust conference in London. But delegate Melian Mansfield, chair of the London Borough of Haringey EYDCP, said, 'You said in your speech that parents and children should be central to developing new children's centres. But the reality is that the core offer and the requirements of the implementation of children's centres and the general discussions that are going around in most local authorities are not about involving parents ...
but about meeting the core offer, implementing services, timescales and funding problems.'
Ms Mansfield blamed the 'restraints or requirements' that the Department for Education and Skills was putting on local authorities. She added, 'Until we change the focus to involving parents and learn how to meet their needs, we are not going to achieve anything that's beneficial for parents.'
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