How to provide high quality early years’ education

Ryan Shorthouse, who works for the Social Market Foundation, has an interesting post today on the ConservativeHome website. He looks at the so-called “riots” which spread to a number of places in the country a few weeks ago, and concludes that the problem is not the state of today’s society, but that we have a [...]

Sure start proves to be a slow start

Not much noise this week about the report that research has shown limited progress among the children involved in the Sure Start programme. Sure Start is supposed to operate in deprived areas, and is costing £21 billion.   But three-year-olds taking part are showing no improvement in verbal skills or in curbing poor behaviour as compared [...]