TUESDAY: The working week begins amid all the outrage that MPs have been milking their expenses and blaming a faulty system. I decide to build in a review of all our policies into this year's business plan. The expenses policy will be the quickest to do - bus fares and coffee, but not a duck pond in sight.
WEDNESDAY: Off to an early years conference, which provides a chance to take the temperature of the sector.
The "free" places for all three- and four-year-old children continues to be a sore point. The funding for a place in a nursery is not equitable with schools and is causing great consternation, not least because many of us do not think children should go to school aged four - a sentiment shared by most of the world and now also supported by the Children, Schools and Families Select Committee.
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