Instead of celebrating, I am instead reviewing and reflecting and using this experience to inform what happens next. I’ve also been on the end of the line for local authorities and providers searching for workable solutions to meet the challenges of the pandemic. We are all working hard to make sense of current conditions and what it means to the early years and childcare sector, children, their families and the whole country.
Before Covid-19, I thought it unlikely we had sated the political appetite for further increments in the hours added to early years and childcare entitlements – whether they be universal or targeted (two-year-olds and 30 hours). But the direction of travel for the sector has been diverted in ways we could never have imagined. So what next?
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