INVITE PVI SECTOR IN
While I welcome the establishment of a 'steering group of high-profileexperts' formed in order to work collaboratively with the Government onpolicy issues (News, 3 March), I am extremely disappointed to note, onceagain, the lack of representation from the private, voluntary andindependent (PVI) sector.
The PVI sector accounts for some 80 per cent of the UK's 15,000-plus daynurseries (source: NDNA stats 2008) and is a key delivery partner on theextended, flexible free entitlement and the Childcare Act. How, then,can this majority be ignored? Surely their input is vital to informingthe direction of early years policy?
I would echo Dawn Nasser's call for the views of small private providersand nursery chains to be given a voice ('More PVI places under threat',News, 17 March), and ask children's minister Sarah Teather to reconsiderher alienation of the PVI sector by inviting representation from thesector.
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