Speaking to delegates at the Pre-school Learning Alliance's annual conference, shadow children's minister Sharon Hodgson, a former childminder, said that while the government had invited sector specialists to help develop its early years policy, she was eager to see how much their advice would be heeded.
"We’re expecting an early years policy statement from the government in the autumn, which will apparently be co-produced by sector specialists," Hodgson said. "It will certainly be interesting to see just how much influence the group will have over the final statement. If we see the term ‘school readiness’ peppered through it then we can probably conclude that it wasn’t very much at all."
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