The shadow education secretary Bridget Phillipson is ‘determined to deliver graduate-led nurseries’ and wants more training for childminders with a workforce plan to get more highly trained staff teaching the youngest children, the Guardian reports.
The shadow education secretary, Bridget Phillipson, wants to put early years on an equal footing with schools to give children the best start in life in a way that could not be reversed by future Conservative governments, the Guardian has reported (Monday 3 July).
In an exclusive interview with the newspaper, the Labour MP said: ‘We know that so much is determined for children early on and that you can make the biggest impact in the early years, yet the system we’ve got right now deprioritises so much of what goes on in our early years settings.
‘We need to raise the standing of the sector, make it part of the education system so that it is regarded with the same parity as our schools. What you achieve in the early years makes such a big difference.’
