With the Labour Party returned to Government, the plans first outlined in the Ten Year Strategy for Childcare to create 3,500 children's centres by 2010 will now be rolled out in full. For everyone who works in the early childhood sector, the most important issue for the years ahead is ensuring that tens of thousands of babies, toddlers and young children experience high-quality nursery education and childcare in these new organisations.
The BBC's 'Nurseries Undercover' programme, televised almost a year ago, highlighted just how poor this quality can be, and just how bad relationships between nursery staff and children can become. After seeing the covertly recorded video by reporter Lizz Brown, who worked as a volunteer nursery worker, parents' anxieties boiled over.
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