You don't have to be too old to have felt that universal nursery education for three-and 4-year-olds was an aspiration that would never be achieved, but this year it was. All credit to this Government, for funding it and for realising that the way to achieve it was by working with all sectors in a planned way.
Even with our historic commitment to school-based nursery education, Nottinghamshire LEA could not have secured universal provision without private and voluntary sector partners providing for 30 per cent of our county's children.
But isn't this like the curious incident of the dog in the night-time? 'The dog did nothing in the night-time.' 'That was the curious incident,' said Sherlock Holmes.
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