Resolutions 2006/2007
 

The following resolutions were passed by members, which will inform the work of the charity for the coming year:

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