Jane Davidson, minister for Education and Lifelong Learning, said last week that the implementation of the Foundation Phase for three- to seven-year-olds, which was due to be rolled out to three- to five-year-olds across Wales next September, is being put off to September 2008. Ms Davidson announced extra funding to support staff training and potentially bring more settings into the pilot, raising this year's budget of 1.5m to 2.5m in 2006/07 and 7.5m in 2007/08.
She said, 'It's clear the timetable was very ambitious and proposed a rapid rate of change to the curriculum. These are not new issues, but the pilot and first year's evaluation have brought them into sharper focus.'
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