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Chains that allow each setting to plan its own curriculum can still guarantee a coherent approach, as Judith Barrett discovers Next spring, when the Government reissues its guidance to early years practitioners, Birth to Three Matters and the Foundation Stage will re-emerge as one shiny, new, streamlined framework for working with children from birth to five years old.

Next spring, when the Government reissues its guidance to early years practitioners, Birth to Three Matters and the Foundation Stage will re-emerge as one shiny, new, streamlined framework for working with children from birth to five years old.

New guidance is difficult enough for the staff in one setting to get their heads around and change their practice accordingly, but it's an even bigger problem for a nursery chain: just how can it ensure that every practitioner interprets the curriculum in a sufficiently similar way for quality to be assured throughout all the settings operating under its name?

It was with this problem in mind that Liz Richardson was appointed director of childcare and education at Asquith Nurseries in June this year. 'Asquith wants a coherent approach to the curriculum across the whole of the group.

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