Colin Maclean, head of the children and young people's group at the Scottish Executive, asked delegates at a conference organised by the Executive in Dundee last week to submit their comments on proposals in Integrated Strategy for the Early Years.
The draft strategy, published by the Executive in March (News, 10 April), suggested that it was necessary to look at partnerships again to ensure that a wider range of interests were being fully involved in planning. It said this could be achieved through the creation of an Early Years Planning Forum in each local authority area, formed through a 'refocusing of the remit and membership of childcare partnerships'. Alternatively, partnerships 'might continue in the current form, but operate as a subgroup of any future early years planning forum'.
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