Nursery World - Conference is given latest on framework

Delegates at Nursery World's conference were the first to hear more details of the new birth-to-five framework from Lesley Staggs, national director of the Foundation Stage, whose team is developing it. Ms Staggs emphasised the need to consider the framework in the context of the five outcomes for children in the Every Child Matters agenda.

Ms Staggs emphasised the need to consider the framework in the context of the five outcomes for children in the Every Child Matters agenda.

She said, 'Of course we want to prepare children for what happens later, but we also want them to have the opportunity to get the most out of the here and now.'

She said the media furore surrounding the publication of the Childcare Bill had arisen partly because of the name change to the Early Years Foundation Stage.

'It changed its name because the minister for children, Beverley Hughes, really wanted a name that signalled to the sector that this was about hanging on to what we already had with the Foundation Stage and bringing in, on a much more formal basis, Birth to Three Matters and looking at how we can do that much more holistically.'

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