Second free pre-school year recommended in new report

A new expert report has recommended that the free pre-school scheme be extended to two years.

 

Currently, the terms of the scheme mean some children aren’t starting pre-school until they’re four-and-a-half years old.

 

The Early Years Strategy proposes that the scheme is opened to children from the age of three, allowing them to benefit from two free years of pre-school.

 

Other measures have also been laid out in the report, such as increased investment in early care, regulation of paid childminders, access to pre-school special needs assistants and extra support given to public health nursing service.

 

What do you think? Are new measures needed? Will the extra pre-school year benefit you and your family?