Nursery World - Editor’s view - Reasons to be Cheerful?

The early years sector is likely to fall down the list of the new Government’s priorities, but there is still cause for optimism

Ruth Thomson, deputy editor

2020 looks set to be another turbulent year, with the new Government promising to ‘get Brexit done’, and to usher in real change.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has already promised a ‘transformative’ administration and flagged up what has been described as ‘a brutal Whitehall shake-up’.

The overhaul aims to weed out ineffective civil servants, restructure government departments and address a perceived dearth of skills within the civil service, principally in science, law and business. It’s early days, but I can already foresee early education and childcare sliding down the list of Government priorities as Brexit, trade and the NHS dominate the political agenda.

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