When I wrote an article reflecting on my first year of practice for Nursery World in July 1990, we were at the beginning of an era of unprecedented change in early childhood care and education. Before 1996 the early years sector had experienced little Government intervention, but the publication of the first national guidelines that year opened the floodgates, with statutory guidance, assessments, and revised frameworks pouring forth ever since.
Policies relating to improving quantity and quality of provision, child protection, multi-agency working, workforce reform, raising outcomes and promoting inclusion, have all dominated my professional thinking and experience since then. As many providers have found, keeping knowledge and understanding up to date and supporting others to do the same has been a constant challenge.
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