Richard House, a senior lecturer in psychotherapy and counselling at Roehampton University, London, and a trained Steiner kindergarten teacher, told Nursery World that the campaigners were against the EYFS being compulsory for all early years settings.
He said, 'The Government is defining child development. It is bureaucratisation and audit mentality being brought into the early years.'
Early years and childcare workers were only now becoming aware of the real implications of the EYFS, he said.
'Part of the problem is that a lot of people who work in early years are not interested in policy-making and are only just waking up to what's happening. There is a sense in a way that this has happened without us realising it.'
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