Nursery World - Editor’s view - What really matters

The result of the General Election, with an unexpected hung parliament, has obviously been momentous.

Plans to ditch infant free school meals have themselves been ditched, the return of grammar schools has been abandoned and the texture of Brexit (hard/soft?) uncertain.

The 30 hours programme is still lurching towards full implementation, but we are unlikely to see much attention paid to the early years for quite some time.

At the time of writing, we are still waiting to see which DfE minister has the childcare brief - with these responsibilities likely to be added to one of the existing ministers’ roles.

However, other events have made all this seem trivial, insignificant. The horror of the Grenfell Towers fire has deeply touched us all, with many in the early years community directly affected or with connections to the children and families tragically killed or made homeless.

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