Dame Gillian Pugh wants to see the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) extended to six-year-olds, a reform of early years teacher training and all early years staff to be qualified at Level 3 or above by 2015.
She also used her speech last week to the Early Childhood Forum's Working for Children conference in Birmingham to take a swipe at the concept of childcare, saying children attending reception class at schools could get overlooked if the focus was all on nurseries.
"It's always childcare," she said. "We never look at early years as a whole and we're rarely reminded that a lot of three- and four-year-olds are at school."
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