Early years practitioners may feel caught between official targets and parents' anxious expectations, against their better judgement. Jennie Lindon recalls the essentials
Around the UK, early years settings have experienced a great deal of change in recent years, in different ways. There have been guidelines, standards, detailed frameworks for an early years curriculum, and revisions of all of these. Much of the advice and guidance has been sound practice. But has the continued pressure on early years practitioners sometimes put too much focus on what the adults should be doing, and producing evidence of same, when it should focus on children's day by day experience on the receiving end?
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