Early Years Development and Childcare Partnerships are to get more money and responsibility to develop provision. Anne Wiltsher reports from the first planning conference
Nearly 200 delegates from Early Years Development and Childcare Partnerships made their way to the prestigious New Connaught Rooms off London's Covent Garden at the beginning of the month.
They emerged from Underground stations blinking in the sunlight and peering at maps sent to them by the Department for Education and Employment. The delegates, mainly women, were from the London area, and here to attend the first of seven regional planning conferences run by the department.
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