It was, of course, published accompanied by his own fanfare. Who else is going to trumpet this announcement? The response was muted, especially from the education sector.
The paper identified 12 national missions which seem to be funded from allocations previously set out in the spending review rather than new funding pots. This is simply hopeless given the challenges the nation faces with rampant inflation, interest rate increases, utility and food price rises and increased recruitment and retention costs due to widespread staffing vacancies.
Naturally, Mr Gove missed the importance of the early years, despite his long tenure in Education. You cannot level up unless you begin in the Early Years where skyscrapers of research shows that this is the place you can make the biggest and profoundest difference. His own government published yet another report recently called The Best Start For Life: A Vision for the 1,001 Critical Days focusing on the importance of the early years.
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