New President for Early Education
At its AGM on 10 November the national early years organisation
Early Education elected Iram Siraj-Blatchford as its new
President. Marion Dowling stood down after five years as
President. Bernadette Duffy thanked her for the amazing
contribution she made to Early Education and invited her to
become a vice president.
The following resolutions were passed by members, which will
inform the work of the charity for the coming year:
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1. Members of Early Education seek
reassurance from the government that the move to flexible
hours and funding will not affect the quality of provision
offered to children and families by the maintained nursery
sector.
2. Early Education will lobby the Northern Ireland Assembly
for the inclusion of the pre-school curriculum within the
Foundation Stage.
3. Early Education will lobby governments to ensure that young
children in all sectors have direct input from a full-time
qualified early years teacher and urgently seek clarification
from the DCFS on the respective roles, training and
remuneration of early years professionals and qualified
teachers in the EYFS.
4. Early Education resolves to lobby HMCI to ensure that all
those who inspect the Early Years Foundation Stage in any
sector are qualified, knowledgeable and experienced in early
years education.
5. Early Education will lobby for the continuation of the
Early Years Foundation Stage to the end of Key Stage 1 and
failing that, lobby for changes to the Early Learning Goals,
which evidence from four years of Foundation Stage profile
outcomes show are set developmentally too high
The AGM also approved changes to the
wording of the Memorandum and Articles to bring them up to
date and to register as a Charity in Scotland.
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