Early Childhood Education and Care services in England are in a bad way. As we wrote in Nursery World in September 2020, there are ‘deep-seated problems about how young children are educated and looked after…; [the system] does not work for children or parents, workers or society…The problems are not only deep-seated but well-known. They include a system split between childcare and early education; fragmented services; starting primary school too early; a devalued “childcare” workforce; a culture of managerial accountability, focused on standardised and measurable outcomes; and a large gap between the end of well-paid leave and an entitlement to early childhood education.’ Under the stress of the pandemic, the situation has gone from bad to worse.
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