With political madness raging all around us, the Labour Party still managed to make some policy pledges at its conference, including plans to scrap Ofsted should it come to power.
This promise wasn't as universally popular as some might have expected. While the largest teaching union gave it the thumbs up, the headteachers association said that although reform was needed, it didn't want to scrap the inspection body.
And the plan to hand checking of schools and early years settings back to local authorities is potentially concerning. If we take early years, council have been stripped of so much funding and responsibility for the sector that few would have the staff and means to take this on.
There is also the prospect of a postcode lottery in terms of how settings are judged.
Without significant investment and reinvigoration of local authority departments, it is hard to see how this would really work.
And Labour's proposal to offer free early years education and childcare to all two-, three- and four-year-olds could be transformational for parents and children, but has been met with extreme wariness by an early years sector that has been worn down for so long by underfunding of the expanding programme of ‘free’ hours.
The cost of doing this while keeping nurseries sustainable would be eye-wateringly high, so the sector needs persuading that this is not yet more overpromising parents at its expense.
And while we are on the subject of Government and parliament, the behaviour and language of some our representatives has been truly appalling. Perhaps they should spend time in our best early years settings, where kindness, caring and co-operation rule.