After a major overhaul of its education team last summer – a new shadow secretary and three shadow ministers – it is perhaps understandable that Labour has been reluctant to offer many commitments on what children's services might look like if it regains power next year.
There have been some eye-catching, and well received, pledges on childcare aimed largely at the "squeezed middle" demographic it so desperately needs to gain the trust of. But there has not been much for children's professionals to get excited about. So it is encouraging to see shadow children's minister Steve McCabe recognise the party has "quite a way to go" on children's policy.
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