As a General Election approaches, I find myself recalling an article that I wrote soon after Labour's election victory. In it, I argued that every nursery school in the country should be developed into an Early Excellence Centre.
Services could then be developed in partnership with these well-established community nursery schools, so enabling the Government to deliver its vision of an integrated care and education service in a cost-effective and efficient way, while guaranteeing quality.
Now I find myself feeling four things. First, that I was right to believe that nursery schools have a huge contribution to make to the Government's vision of an integrated education and care service.
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