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We recognise the government’s good intentions in its early-years policy-making, but are concerned about the EYFS legislation, which comes into force in England next September.

Our concerns focus on the learning and development requirements, as follows:

1. They may harm children’s development

2. They will restrict parents’ freedom of choice in childcare and education

3. Their assessment profile requirements may place an unnecessary bureaucratic burden on those who care for young children

4. Recent evidence suggests that government interventions in education generally may not be driving standards up and may be putting too much pressure on children

Current signatories

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• Lee Partner
• Jemma Scott
• Emma Sadler
• Cheryl Wilde
• nadia hamidi
• Rachel Hughes
• Claire Turnbull
• Rebecca Phillips
• Philip Wade
• Wendy Burkinshaw
• Eva Soukupova
• Emma Griffiths
• Jenny Drake
• Ben Drake
• Jenny Rust
• Margaret Ann Patching
• Katie Badrick
• Maria Gray
• Jean Macklin
• Emily Ashmore
• Ania Zielinska
• Sheila Stevens
• Katherine King
• Stephen Roberts
• Antonia Richards (SROT)
• Richard Welsford
• Sandra Mitchell
• Hilary Johnston
• Rex Gimblett
• yasemin beckram
• ANGELA JONES
• Damien Carr
• Sharon Corcoran
• Catherine Lander
• catherine shutler
• Gill Hickman
• suzanne rawlings
• Jeffrey Rea
• Daniel Scott
• sharon barkle
• Becky Hoare
• Dasha Radovanovic
• elizabeth malyon
• emma
• andrew urwin
• Marian French
• Mrs. Carol Roberts
• Elke Lawton
• Kay Utting
• marie titley
• Ruth Cooke
• Carrie Dunne
• k smooch
• Hermien van Zuijlen
• Melanie Haigh
• Donna Giles
• Claire Corbet
• Wendy Taylor
• Cliff Taylor
• Cassie Yukawa
• Pauline Doidge
• Gladys Kent
• Rachel Keen
• Jaswinder Kaur Kular
• Cindy Heughan
• Mary Sheridan
• Valerie Simms
• jackie wardle
• Sarah Edwards
• Malcolm Gray
• Hannah Hopewell
• AIMEE KIMBELL
• SUSAN VICK
• JUDY BARBER
• Dominique Kempshall
• Amanda Chenery
• Sarah Bowles-Flannery
• karen cotter
• s mulqueen
• Hayley Hammond
• Ernie Brennan
• Truda Spruyt
• Paeony Lewis
• Stephanie Wallis
• Julie Sykes
• lynda worrall
• Alan Weyman
• Alison Frecknall
• Catherine Simmonds
• Christine Brown
• John Qureshi
• Daniel Perrett
• Christopher Millett
• Isabel King
• Nicholas Dyson
• Hayley Dyson-Smith
• Lynn Elliott
• Maija Huttunen-Lenz
• Dr. Martin Lenz
• Dr Kaihsu Tai
• Simon Williams
• Daniel Carins
• Geoffrey Foster B.Sc.
• Dermot Yuille
• Sarah Denton
• Jennifer Hocking
• Suzanne Harbourne
• Alexandra Tham
• Jeremy Rix
• Alban Thurston
• Hugo Charteris
• Lorraine Manning
• Susan Latus
• Anne Terris
• a phillips
• Patricia Grundy
• andrew Page
• Jill Foster
• Robert Peel
• rosemary moore
• Emma Goulet, Teacher
• Joanne Godefroy
• Helen Avey
• Carol Ford
• Stephanie maltman
• Mhairi Higgins
• christine woollard
• Lynne Hook
• Bonnie Hildred
• Clare Harrison
• Paul Mills
• Gaye Patel
• Annie Cook
• Jill Howard
• Aldo Mussi
• Clare Bashford
• Mrs Kathleen Halliwell
• Philip Reynolds
• Tina Fowler
• Simon Burman
• Gerald Slora
• Anne Gladstone
• clare muscat
• sarah cefai
• Gitte Lindberg
• annemarie muscat
• vincent muscat
• JULI E MASKELL
• kate prentis
• Jackie Coleman
• Monique Rennie
• annefletcher
• Esther Peachey
• Martin Derkenne
• Janet Keshavarz
• Annette Gade
• Bronia Veitch
• Julia Moody
• charlotte barrington
• Sybil Caines
• Holly Brame
• Lynn Levy
• Sylvia Lewin
• Emma Flint
• Marisa Baltrock
• Joan Silvester
• Lois Williams
• Andrea Burn
• T Fell
• Sheila Struthers
• Helen Hill, nursery teacher for 26 years
• DENISE REYNOLDS
• Caroline Futter
• Ann Ambrose
• Eric H Morgan
• Julie Kenan
• Hilary Armfield
• Jasmine Fassl
• Alice Bruggen
• Mark Wilson
• Debra Norwell
• Nicola Chavasse
• Moshe Papo
• Margaret Baran
• Neil Evans
• Nicola O'Connor
• Josephine Botting
• Emma Merrick
• John Parfitt
• Naomi Hutchings
• Lisa Reid-Tome
• Victoria Donmall
• James Donmall
• Alexandra Cable
• Hannelore Hawe
• Fiona Kemp
• k j hoye
• Madeline Haslewood
• Tracy Pitman
• Shirley Smith
• Harriet Steel
• Michael Leese
• claire Lambros
• Lance Deitsch
• Elizabeth Hirst
• Miranda Williams
• Ashley Spreadborough
• jane crumpton
• Nagako Cooper
• Emma Brazier
• Valerie Baker
• Tracey Gormley
• Nicola Baker
• Maria Montoya
• Neil Jenkins
• Lorraine Sela
• carole broughton
• Christopher Coles
• James Huggins
• Elizabeth Huggins
• jane kay
• Hannah Appleby
• Joanne Dutton
• Chloe Somers
• Martin Francis
• Jenny Lancaster
• J Cordwell
• Emma Bradshaw
• kerrin smith
• Nalia George
• Ellie Holly
• Ioanna Lamprinopoulou
• Sarah Weston
• Jane Walde
• samantha bushrod
• Brenda Stephenson
• David Stephenson
• H Nicholls
• Victoria Cooper
• julie knowles
• Katy Porter
• Denise Mahood
• Ed Walde
• Maggie Bevington
• Debbie kemp
• Dina Davis
• Anja Johansen-Bibby
• Jacqueline Baines
• E.Ingham
• Helen Birnbaum
• Sue Burgess
• Claire Diamond
• Alan Foad
• Richard Podger
• Dr David Greenfield
• Mirka Fenclova
• Philippa Nightingale
• Alan Gurbutt
• April Warman
• Lori Lee
• Martyn Lee
• TonyUpton
• Jill Davies
• Emma Bow
• Trilby Roberts
• Nicola Harris
• Anne Peapell
• linda warman
• Kathryn Howard
• Peter Jones
• Elaine Greenwood-Hyde
• Caroline Dingley
• sarah tridgell
• Paul Davis
• Chantelle Maunder
• Liz Fawcett
• Val Fox
• Kim Dawson
• Alexandra Mouncher
• Pam Appleton
• Maeve O'Connor, Mum of 1
• Carol Stanbury
• Harriet Wheeler
• Nicola Lattimer
• Maggie Squirrell
• Kate Pryce
• C.Sandbrook (Registered Childminder)
• Ruth Davey
• Leonard Jarvis
• Emma Methven
• HEATHER KENDALL CHILDMINDER FOR 21YRS AND MUM OF 2
• Kirsty Sharp
• Beatrice Greenfield
• Kirsten Walters
• Sally Brooke
• Sue Mortimer
• stella roberts
• Carol Burrow
• Rachel Schendel
• Julie Roberts
• Caroline Thompson
• Penny Vine
• Victoria Cosgrove
• cheryl scott
• Karen Haines
• S Holland
• Tessa Rowland
• Niamh hughes
• Carol Wallace
• Saida Sattar
• Clare Page
• Janet Ellis
• T Jannaway
• Jim Appleton
• Amanda Hodgson
• LIANE PIBWORTH
• Gill George
• Michael Duncan gettins
• KAREN SOUTER
• Sylvia Harris
• Carolyn Beesley
• Mrs Yvette Halpin
• Kathryn Dunn
• Casper ter Kuile
• Steph Grant
• Miss Linzi Heys
• jane carr
• samantha copeland
• Karen Clarke
• Jean-Paul Hackett
• Sheelagh Poyner
• Katrina Waldron
• maureen mortlock childminder.
• melanie walters
• Adam Prickett
• D Knowles
• simon jarvis
• Jennifer Patchett
• Adam Patchett
• Zoe Holland
• Penny Hutchinson
• rebecca lincoln
• Dr Holly Goodwin
• Becky Quartermaine
• Therese Anthun
• Ross Gardler
• Ian Lynch
• Richard A Rothwell
• jennifer adams
• Gail Gibbs
• Martin Cook
• andrew town
• Mrs Julia Farrington
• Heidi-marie Gardler
• penny town
• david worden
• Caroline Devonport
• Bernadette Bye
• Shirley Russel
• Caron Minnitt
• scott gilbert
• Emma Osborne
• Holly Davies
• Elizabeth Davies
• Emma Allen
• Eloise Elder
• Philip Cogswell
• Mrs R de Wynter
• Betty Stringer
• Pat Croysdill
• kelly ablott
• Clare Goodacre
• Arlene Florian
• Trevor Milnes
• Elizabeth Purslow
• Jens Hubert
• Kerry Wornell
• Tina Cresswell
• Tracy DeJersey
• Claire Smither
• Mandy Wilkinson
• Marjorie Milnes
• Marie Jackson
• Victoria Kennett
• kristy broadhurst
• Jonathon Whittaker
• Linda Ann thompson
• Judith Monk
• caroline mitchell
• Carrie Bradbury
• F. Jeferies
• Beryl Fielder
• Sarah Fearn
• Zoe Shaughnessy
• Martin Mills
• Catherine Daley
• kimberley pemberton
• Nicola Warrick
• Harold Philbin
• Rhys Bradbury
• Yvonne Willey
• rowan shingler
• Ann White
• Rowena Sanders
• Lindsey Russell
• Treena Cooper
• Grant Cooper
• Helen Childs
• Alison Turford
• Ptrick Barker
• Stephanie O'Dell
• Sebastian O'Dell
• Nicholas Southon
• Deborah Elliott
• Rachel Aucott
• Andrew Morrice
• Paul Robinson
• Lucie Johnson
• Jackie Mears
• Maureen Box
• Viktoria Steinhoff
• Adam Inglis
• linda north
• jbennetto
• Pamela Minshull
• Rosie Mount
• P Reid
• Pamela Downes-Grainger
• Christine Baguley
• Roxanna Piper
• frances oliver
• Helen White
• nadege farnier
• Justine Coombs
• Sue Plant
• Richard Berenger
• Ben Short
• Lauren Cooke
• Caroline Short
• Rayner Colley
• Melanie White
• Michele Lynn Adjbishe
• Karen Arnott
• Penny Mook
• Sarah Gregory
• Melissa Sansom
• A J HERMAN
• Janet Bennett
• Susan Servais
• dawn Rogers
• lisa jackson
• Angela Wright
• Paula Tribe
• Pat Hague
• Tina Greathead
• James deJode
• Penny Beeston
• jean jaram
• Fr. Peter Doodes
• Mike Croker
• Carolyn McClure
• Sue Viner
• Sarah Carr
• Alison Hommel
• Victoria Brennan
• Kathryn Dickens
• karen brewer
• Jackie Woodhouse
• Joanna Dadd
• Lorna Rayner
• Julie Dear
• Mobeen khan
• Shiraz khan
• paul nixon
• Louise O'Hare
• Sarah Faulkner
• patsy bustin
• Kathryn Wood
• Julie Wheeler
• carol norwood
• Lorraine Kinsey
• Yasmin Fraser
• paul cutler
• Caroline Parker
• Louise Lack
• karen konstantakis
• Laura Curtis
• Keri Bradley
• Joanna Dawson
• Margaret Brown
• Emma Biermann
• Jennifer Francis
• nicola robinson
• mervyn john west
• Kirsty Hamer
• S Clarke
• stephanie quinn
• steff quinn
• Heather Williams
• Sarah Weston

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