Nursery World - Fiddle around the edges

Too many people are fiddling with early years policy, says Michael Pettavel, when the real problem is money

I read with a heavy heart the new Ofsted report on Reception classes, ‘Bold Beginnings’.

With a heavy heart because surely there must come a time when people stop fiddling. Fiddling with stuff, I often tell children, breaks it, and currently too many people, fiddling in too many areas, is damaging the early years. Research is different, aimed at finding an answer, rather than a problem – it informs practice, not dictates it. We have a great number of people who have a solution, all looking for a problem to solve. I can tell you all about the problem – it’s called money.

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