A high quality early years education improves the lives of children, has a positive impact on their future educational attainment and contributes towards social equality.
Maintained nursery schools (MNS) are under threat of closure due to chronic underfunding by the Government.
Join the coalition demanding meaningful attempts at resolving ongoing systemic issues that cause serious harm to education staff.
Stop agencies profiteering at the expense of supply teachers and school budgets
When 4- & 5-year-olds should be settling into school, they are unnecessarily tested.
There is now more primary and early years assessment than ever. English children are among the most tested in the world.
We need reform of our assessment and exams systems to make them fit for the future.
The Phonics Screening Check promotes school accountability, not a love of reading.
The revised early learning goals of the EYFSP narrow the curriculum and undermine the role of early years in education.
Sign up to our Primary curriculum and assessment WhatsApp groups.
The Government has launched a review of curriculum and assessment in England.
The NEU opposes the Government’s decision to create a national curriculum body in the form of OAK National Academy, with funding of more than £43m over three years.
