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101 programmes, Neighbourhood Nurseries and Early Ex­cellence Centres. However, the Sure Start unit is also encouraging local authorities to think innovatively about how to develop other local provision in the maintained, voluntary and private sectors. Since the Children’s Centre programme is very much about building on ex­isting provision, very few new Children’s Centres will be built from scratch. Is t­he t­ravel in t­he right­ direct­ion? We remain convinced that the overall direction and overarching policy priorities which aim to develop universal, integrated services for all children and families in England is absolutely right. The creation of a Children’s Centre in every neighbourhood, which is open and accessible for all, seems to us to be socially and ethically just, and an essential part of creating more inclusive, equitable and supportive communities. The stakes are high in that we believe such centres do have the capacity to change life chances and create different futures, particularly for the most vulnerable members of our society. Since New Labour came into Government in 1997 we have seen some fantastic and radical step changes in policy and practice in early childhood. To list just some of these: 1. The significant and sustained increases in investment in early years services to support the ex­pansion and transformation agenda within the sector. 2. The legislation which establishes a statutory framework in which entitlements of parents and children to funded early years services from birth is guaranteed, and for the first time in half a century rolls forward the Welfare State. 3. The creation and consolidation of the Foundation Stage and Birth to Three Matt- ers in the creation of the Early years Foundation Stage, which builds on recent research and knowledge of child development and learning through the birth to five age phase. 4. The establishment of a common starting point for all service delivery around the 5 outcomes for children set out in the Children act 2004. 5. The development of the workforce and a sustained concern to up-skill and up- grade the profession in terms of qualifications, status and terms and conditions of employment. also the work to re-shape the workforce to take account of the integrated services agenda – all of which are long overdue. BUT we also have some concerns about the current agenda: • We feel that we are at a watershed where decisions have and are being made which raise some BIG questions which we are not being given clarity over. We fear that policy makers may prefer to see birth to fives as separate from the educational agenda, and though development and learning are terms used within recent documentation, the place of early education is rarely mentioned. We sense much CHris­ Pas­Cal and tony­ Bertram­
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