If education is driven out of the children's centre programme, then the Government's intention to improve the educational attainment and life chances of children in poverty will fail.
If we continue to close nursery schools we will lose the best model of high-quality care and education we have on which to build integrated services that stand a chance of reducing initial inequality.
The Forum was established in 2001 to expose the extent to which maintained nursery schools were providing services to support families and to assist in extending and developing these services in line with Government policy.
The closure and amalgamation of maintained nursery schools has continued and many local authorities have overlooked them as the base for extended services.
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