He will call for schools to take the lead in providing high-quality early education, saying, ‘What children facing serious disadvantage need is high-quality, early education from the age of two delivered by skilled practitioners with degrees in a setting that parents can recognize and access easily. These already exist. They are called schools.’
Ofsted’s Early Years Report is being released this morning, and will reveal the continuing gap between outcomes for children from disadvantaged backgrounds and more affluent children.
Sir Michael is to say that this results in too many children not being ready for school, and finding it difficult to catch up as they don’t have the basic language and counting skills,
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