Archive for January, 2013

Politics is not welcome in the nursery

Posted by juneosullivan in Early Years, Education on January 29, 2013

I write this blog with a sense of anger and despair. Even playing Verdi very loudly and a glass of wine could not quell my alarm. Why such gloom? Our Minister Elizabeth Truss has decided to continue with her ill-considered plan to reduce ratios (click here to read the Minister’s speech today at the Policy Exchange […]

Cuts, Elizabeth Truss, Impact, Parents, Policy, Policy Exchange, Quality, Ratios

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Asking Robin Van Persie to kick the childcare football straight into the Equalities net

Posted by juneosullivan in Early Years, Education, Research on January 21, 2013

Childcare is flavour of the week and quickly becoming a political football. I wish we had an equivalent Robin Van Persie to either land the childcare ball in the net, or kick it so far into the distance that we have to begin a debate that gets us to really consider what we want from childcare. At […]

Big Society, Child Poverty, Child Poverty Alliance, Childcare Commission, David Cameron, Department of Education, Elizabeth Truss, My Fair London, Paul Krugman, Policy, Reports, Resolution Foundation, Sarah Teather, UNICEF

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The childcare cost mystery: is it time for Monsieur Poirot to visit the Treasury?

Posted by juneosullivan in Early Years, Education, Training on January 14, 2013

We are all aware that the cost of childcare is too expensive for many parents. Yet the Government says it spends £7billion a year on pre-school support? What is the money being spent on? If it’s not going to parents and it certainly isn’t going to providers, then where is it? The case for affordable […]

affordable child care, £7 billion of expenditure by government, Child care, child care costs, Employer childcare vouchers, Hercule Poirot, Nursery Grants Funding, Tax Credits, Treasury, Two year old funding

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