Nursery World - Early Learning Goals group ‘unrepresentative’

The Department for Education has come under fire after a Freedom of Information request revealed little early years sector representation among those involved in reviewing the EYFS early learning goals.

The names on the list include experts in primary teaching, and even one secondary maths expert, leading to comments that there are very few practitioners involved with direct experience of working with pre-school children.

There is also disquiet that some of those consulted include commercial providers, such as Jolly Phonics and Ruth Miskin Training.

While there are names that might be expected, such as Gill Jones, deputy director of early years at Ofsted, Sue Robb from Action for Children, Sir Kevan Collins from the Education Endowment Foundation, and James Bowen from the NAHT, there are others whose expertise lies more with older children.

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