Is Labour's 'Early Years' review asking the right questions?

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English - November 15, 2023 05:00 - 35 minutes - 24.5 MB
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Regular listeners will know that we recently dedicated a whole episode to the main education stories from this year’s Conservative and Labour Party conferences, but there was one story we didn’t get a chance to look at in that episode because it was announced on the last day of the last conference.

On the 11th of October, Shadow education secretary Bridget Phillipson outlined plans for a large-scale review of the early years sector, which essentially covers the period from birth up to the start of primary school. The review will be chaired by Sir David Bell, the former chief inspector of Ofsted, and the former top civil servant at the Department for Education.

So what issues will this review be investigating? Are they the right issues? And how much of a difference could a new government make in early years provision when extra funding will be very hard to come by?

Our guests today are June O'Sullivan MBE, Chief Executive of the London Early Years Foundation, and Dr Laura Outhwaite, Principal Research Fellow at UCL's Centre for Education Policy and Equalising Opportunities (CEPEO).

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