Nursery World - Cohesive attitudes

It is important that all of us working in the early years urge Ruth Kelly's Commission for Integration and Community Cohesion to include the role that early years services should play in its remit. If we leave any proposed work to be done until children are at school, we are missing a vital opportunity to enable them to learn, in these crucial formative years, positive attitudes to differences between people - attitudes that are the basis of future harmony between communities.

If we leave any proposed work to be done until children are at school, we are missing a vital opportunity to enable them to learn, in these crucial formative years, positive attitudes to differences between people - attitudes that are the basis of future harmony between communities.

Jane Lane, advocate worker for racial equality in the early years, Reading

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