In his speech to the sector today at the launch of the second Ofsted Early Years Annual Report, Ofsted’s chief inspector said that health visitors could encourage parents to take up the two-year-old offer because of the contact they already have with the poorest families.
Nearly half of all eligible twos (42 per cent) were not using a place at any type of early years setting, the report said.
Sir Michael warned that school nurseries had been ‘colonised by the middle classes’, but that better-off children did not get any particular advantage from being in school from the age of two and would do just as well in a private nursery, a childminder or at home.
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