Furthermore, with the split of the old DfEE into the Department for Education and Skills and the Department for Work and Pensions, we face the prospect of childcare and early years education moving further apart in policy decisions. Baroness Hollis of Heigham has been named minister for children and the family, with a brief that includes childcare. This appears to preserve the notion of education for three-to five-year-olds and childcare for the under-threes to get parents back to work, for which the Government was regularly criticised in its last term.
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