More funding needed to help early years bounce back from Covid, experts warn

There are children starting school who “don’t know how to eat, don’t know how to sit still… some even still in nappies, they don’t know how to respond to their own name, even”. The troubling revelation comes from Anne Longfield, the former children’s commissioner, whose concerns are echoed by experts across the United Kingdom. Those working in the sector are now calling for urgent action to undo the damage to babies’ and children’s development.