The recent announcement from Nadhim Zahawi regarding a brief extension to the supplementary funding for nursery schools has been controversial. There are, however, a couple of anomalies that need to be brought into the light.
It puzzles me that the majority of the education system in Britain is in the hands of the state, whereas nursery education is the opposite, being predominantly based in the private and voluntary sector.
Nursery schools have been part of the legacy of nursery education and child welfare in Britain – dating back to Margaret MacMillan and Froebel. I fully accept that nursery schools are and have been better funded than the rest of the sector, but I would counsel caution in focusing too heavily on a direct comparison and falling into a trap others have set.
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