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Opinion: To the Point - Moving the EYFS upward

The trouble with the Early Years Foundation Stage is that it ends too soon, says Pat Wills.

How do we move on to the next stage of improving children's lives for decades to come? The past 18 months have produced one shock analysis after another, beginning with Sue Palmer's Toxic Childhood and continuing with the Unicef report suggesting that British children suffer a low quality of life.

On Saturday 10 November, early years specialists met at Early Education's AGM. Professor Iram Siraj-Blatchford took a thought-provoking look at the monitoring and evaluation of the implementation of the Foundation Phase in Wales. The outstanding difference between that work and that in England was the decision to work with three- to seven-year-olds.

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