Policy Exchange’s report ‘Quality Childcare: Improving early years childcare

28th January 2013

Here are Anna’s tweets from earlier summarising the key points and recommendations from the Policy Exchange report: Quality Childcare: Improving early years childcare’. She has focused particularly on provision for disadvantaged children.

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