Division slows progress, standing in the way of collaboration and innovation. Division diverts time, energy and efforts away from finding and uniting around solutions.
Pre-Covid, it wasn’t unusual to see one type of early years provision pitted against another. On the one hand, nursery groups were sometimes painted as prioritising profit over people, championing corporate priorities over children’s needs. On the other, sole providers operating as one nursery, pre-school or childminder were sometimes painted as lacking professionalism, as behind the curve on requirements, research and rigour.
This binary division is at best biased and at worst divisive. During the pandemic and immediately after it, I thought we had moved beyond that. All in the storm together, albeit in different boats, but stronger together. Now I see a resurgence in opinion pieces reinforcing that binary division and taking shots at nursery groups.
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