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Practitioners are faced with balancing the concerns raised over the EYFS with using it in the best interests of children. Simon Vevers reports A'nappy curriculum', gross interference in the rights of parents to bring up their children, another example of the sinister workings of the nanny state. Perhaps predictably, the publication of The Early Years Foundation Stage: Consultation on a single quality framework for services to children from birth to five attracted a rash of lurid and misleading headlines.

A'nappy curriculum', gross interference in the rights of parents to bring up their children, another example of the sinister workings of the nanny state. Perhaps predictably, the publication of The Early Years Foundation Stage: Consultation on a single quality framework for services to children from birth to five attracted a rash of lurid and misleading headlines.

The Daily Mail was responsible for the 'nappy curriculum' tag and both it and the Daily Telegraph wheeled out a spokeswoman for the National Federation of Parent-Teacher Associations to condemn the proposals as 'a step too far'. She said, 'We are now in danger of taking away children's childhood when they leave the maternity ward.'

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