Nursery World - Editor’s view - Drowning in paperwork

The reasons that early years practitioners are doing so much paperwork are many and varied, but there is hope for change

It’s easy to tell when a news story that we run touches a real chord with our readers in the early years sector.

At the moment, it’s the report ‘Early years practitioners doing more paperwork than necessary’ (online, 10 September) that is in this position, with many thousands reading the story and lots piling in to comment on social media.

Even schools minister Nick Gibb, newly placed in charge of early years education and funding, joined in on Twitter, saying, ‘To clarify that EY teachers and practitioners don’t need to prepare paperwork for inspectors. We want to free teachers and practitioners to spend more time on important activities such as reading to children.’

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