The NDNA used the conference to launch its policy paper, 'Promoting Quality in the Early Years'. With the Government set to publish its ten-year plan for childcare and early years services, the paper calls for its commitment to ten points aimed at developing a quality workforce, providing a more flexible service for parents and supporting day nurseries as community assets.
The first point calls for 'a strategy that clearly places the needs of the child at its heart and understands that the birth- to-five model of integrated childcare and education that day nurseries are designed to deliver should not be lost'.
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