First Early Years report highlights importance of teaching and learning in pre-school settings
 

Pre-school children from poorer backgrounds need the support of professionally trained teaching staff to stop them falling behind as soon as they reach school age, Ofsted said today.
In its first stand-alone Early Years Annual Report, the inspectorate argues that the pre-Reception age settings best equipped to help break 'the cycle of disadvantage' are those focused on helping children to learn at the earliest age.


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