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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.
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2. Early
Education will lobby the Northern Ireland Assembly for the inclusion of
the pre-school curriculum within the Foundation Stage.
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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.
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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.
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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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