We talked about the frustration at the lack of a National Early Years Strategy and have to navigate continual policies that fail to respond to the continual raft of national and international social, economic and educational research which reaffirms the power of Early Years. I am currently reading a book by Hashi Mohamed about his story of arriving in London as a nine-year-old Somalian child refugee and his journey through the system to author and barrister.
It is a heart-warming book despite its message.
Last night I turned the page and there indeed were the words we all know to be true: “No period of your life is as important as your first four years… your early years sets the course for the rest of your life, a course that is very hard to correct later on.”
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