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102 more of a childcare and development agenda and the rigours and demands of delivering high quality learning ex­periences supported by well qualified educationalists (which we know are crucial to the outcomes for children agenda) in these new services are being squeezed out quietly by omission. The only place where the need for focused learning is highlighted in recent documentation is with regard to literacy and numeracy through the downward move of the literacy and numeracy strategies. We would find it hard to support this, especially with the kind of staffing that is being envisaged. This appears to us to be profoundly out of step with the essence of the Foundation Stage curriculum guidance. • We find hard to justify defining a new role for local authorities as managers of the childcare ‘market’ and actively discouraging them from providing childcare themselves, even though historically some of the most radical and enterprising provision has been developed by local authorities. The new Childcare act of 2006 hardly establishes a level playing field and, while we acknowledge the valu- able contribution of all sectors, it could be viewed as a policy that favours the private and voluntary sector over the maintained sector within the ‘market’. • Recent guidance on the development of Children’s Centres for the 70% ‘more advantaged’ wards appears to diminish and dilute the vision of high quality Children’s Centres, which have high quality learning ex­periences for children at their heart. In previous initiatives like Early Ex­cellence, the centres were chosen on the basis of their high quality educational input for children, which the evidence shows, resulted in significantly enhanced outcomes for children. For us, Children’s Centres should be viewed as far more ambitious than the mere ex­tension of Sure Start Local Programmes, but rather something that takes from the best quality early education contex­ts (especially nursery schools and classes, and Early Ex­cellence Centres) and embeds this with the best practice of Sure Start programmes. We wonder why we are so reluctant to include and promote education as a central element in the developing service in a debate where the focus increasingly seems to be on establishing ‘childcare’, when clearly an integrated service embodies the best of both. Even the title of the current ‘Childcare’ act indicates a continued perceived separation of these aspects of children’s services. • We fear that the Government will back off any commitment to the notion of ‘graduate-ness’ as the recommended standard for the majority of early years professionals, despite the research evidence showing the benefits of this on outcomes for children. There is an urgent need for further investment in train- ing and qualification opportunities, and more radical work on the reshaping of professional training for teachers, health workers and social workers to take on multi-agency and multi-professional teamwork demands. While we agree that the current professional models we have within the early years workforce need reviewing and probably reshaping, we worry about the negativity within this debate around teachers and the concept of teacher involvement in early years services. We are also very wary about introducing the concept of pedagogue as an appropriate or desirable way forward in creating a ‘new’ workforce. V ið­Horf
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