There are deep-seated problems about how young children are educated and looked after in England today; the system of early childhood education (ECE) and care does not work for children or parents, workers or society. Nothing short of transformation is now needed to give these children the all-round upbringing they have a right to and parents the support they need to both work and care.
This is the core message of a new book from UCL Institute of Education – Transforming Early Childhood in England: Towards a Democratic Education. The book is highly critical, detailing the problems in today’s early childhood services, but also very hopeful, setting out how tomorrow’s transformed services might look.
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