Putting forward a question to the speakers at London Early Years Foundation’s (LEYF) annual debate yesterday (Thursday 16 November), Aynsley-Green said, that across all the sectors, not just early years, there is a denial of the importance of children because of political indifference. And somehow ‘we have to get the message across about why children are so important’, including the economics of investing in childhood to ‘spell it out to politicians’.
He said the situation in this country is a ‘national disgrace’, and added, ‘What would the alien from Mars have to say about us and our pathetic attitude to the importance of children.’
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