Outside the school gates

The Primary Review is pressing on and Berry Mayall has released an interim report into the impact of what happens to children outside of school, key points:

- Government should counter-balance the negative media perception of children
- Poverty needs to be reduced and the status of children increased
- If early years is the way forward then a fully trained workforce is needed
- To build on what children know the teaching profession and curriculum needs reform
- There should be a full debate on the distinction between school and free time and the role of home and parents (with topics such as parenting classes included) in the "scholarisation" of childhood