The standards published earlier this month had already been roundly criticised by the sector for failing to focus on the importance of play for young children, but now two different expert groups have submitted highly critical responses to the standards.
TACTYC, the Association for the Professional Development of Early Years Educators, said that the new standards ‘include several aspects that will skew work with young children’ and claims that the sector’s views have not been sufficiently taken into account in drawing up the standards.
The association’s chair Dr Jane Payler, a senior lecturer in Education at the University of Winchester, has written to education and childcare minister Elizabeth Truss with the group’s concerns.
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