1. Early Education will demonstrate its commitment to high quality provision for young children by promoting the importance of adult/child interactions in early years settings.

2. Early Education welcomes the proposal to expand Children’s Centres into every community. Early Education urges the Government to ensure that the children’s learning and development is promoted through the employment of full-time teachers with early years training and expertise who operate as members of the Senior Management Team in every centre.

3. Early Education should lobby the government to improve the clarity of messages about content of foods through lobbying the DfES to ensure that learning to cook is a compulsory part of the curriculum for secondary school pupils the media to raise the profile of cooking and eating nutritious food.
Early Education should promote cooking in the curriculum as a matter of nutrition rather than just mathematical development and encourage all early years settings to run cooking groups for parents and carers.

4. In view of the Government’s intention to open educational settings before and after the school day, Early Education should lobby LEAs and government to ensure that these are fully funded and that demands upon staff are reasonable, agreed, workable and without detriment to the health and well being of members of staff.

5. In view of research showing the value of the role of nursery teachers, Early Education is concerned at the Scottish Executive's decision and subsequence advice to local authorities that a teacher is no longer required in nursery classes and would ask them to reverse this.


Election of officers
Manny Lewis was re-elected Chair
Chris Boustead was re-elected Treasurer
Bernadette Duffy was re-elected Joint Vice Chair
Sally Ward was elected Joint Vice Chair
Jane Whinnett was elected Joint Vice Chair

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