We are moving to a new site at my university. There is much less room in my new office and I have had to clear out.
There was such an accumulation of stuff. All those poorly printed pre-1997 DHSS Children Act guidelines - I'll put them in the recycle sack. The EU Childcare Network booklets - well, perhaps I'll keep a couple for souvenirs.
That shelf of brightly coloured, glossy EYDCP booklets - in the skip, they're not even recyclable. Those EYDCP Excel spreadsheets with local targets sent to me by desperate chairpersons seeking advice - in the shredder.
The Childcare Strategy papers, the Centres of Early Excellence blurb, the Beacon Schools, the Neighbourhood Nursery booklets, the Single Regeneration Budget, the Education Action Zones - toss them in the skip. What about the shiny DfES conference packs, the Ofsted reports, the curriculum documents, and that other shelfload of Sure Start bumph and the Sure Start evaluations? Sorry, the skip for you too.
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