Nearly all four-year-olds in free childcare scheme

[noschool]

The net is closing and they will soon be taking pregnant women into 'protective' custody to monitor their every movement.

Nearly all four-year-olds in free childcare scheme

Government statistics released today show that families of almost every four-year-old in the country are taking advantage of free entitlement to childcare.

Forced childcare to allow them to take advantage of forced labour 'opportunities'. Whatever happened to looking after your own children? And can you really trust any of these professionals?

The findings also show that 92 per cent of three-year-olds are accessing free early education, an increase of one per cent from 2008.

The forced labour regime marches relentlessly on in order to turn out compliant little drones who will over produce and over consume, no questions asked.

No wonder home educators are being targeted. They harbour far too many independent thoughts and therefore need to have their children suitably programmed by the state.

[Amy Thomson]

Haha! Was just going to post that, but then got distracted reading Next Steps for Early Learning and Childcare http://publications.everychildmatter...2009DOM-EN.pdf . This is full of horrors... for example when, exactly, did parents become so gormless that they have to be told how to play with their children?

We will also identify, through the National
Network for Sure Start Children’s Centres
Managers, a group of centres to work with us
to identify and share best practice in
delivering structured parent and toddler
“stay and play” sessions, where practitioners
model rich use of language and demonstrate
positive interactions with young children,
while engaging in enjoyable play-based
learning activities with them. Parents can
then use these approaches and activities
with their child at home. Practitioners in
Children’s Centres will build on learning from
the Early Learning Partnerships Project,
which showed that well-structured “stay and
play” time helped to improve parent-child
relationships. The project also found that
mothers and fathers showed progress in
organising their child’s environment to give
them more opportunities to learn from dayto-
day activities with their parents outside
the home.



And this is just creepy...

Mothers and fathers say that they would like
more advice from early learning and
childcare providers operating outside
Children’s Centres too, for example in
community and voluntary sector settings.
They would also welcome the ability to share
books, games, puzzles and educational toys.
Because of their close relationships with
parents, their knowledge of individual
children, and their professional training,
childcare workers are uniquely placed to
help mothers and fathers understand why a
good home learning environment is
important and to support them in creating
and developing it.

I can only hope that the mothers and fathers say' bit is referring to some deeply flawed consultation or another, and that people don't actually think they need the government to tell them how to raise children.

[Amy Thomson]

"Evidence suggests that extending a level of
free provision to the most disadvantaged
two year olds is likely to have a greater
positive impact on child outcomes than
extending the number of free hours available
to three and four year olds beyond the
15 hours per week they will receive by
September 2010. Two year olds are the
priority because research shows good quality
part time early learning and childcare at this
age brings particular gains in cognitive and
early language development. And that
children from disadvantaged backgrounds
stand to gain most. Yet at the moment 65
percent of 1-2 year olds do not attend any
early learning and childcare. And children
in workless, low income or lone parent
households are least likely of all to do so.30"

"When a parent first contacts the Families Information Service (FIS), their query is logged and the FIS
gives advice over the phone about how to find childcare. Vacancy lists and packs are sent to the
parents who are asked to call back if they find it difficult to secure suitable childcare.
If a parent fails to find childcare then the brokerage service comes into play. Families using the service
will be contacted by a Childcare Access Officer who will work with them to secure the right type of
childcare to meet their needs. Referrals can also be made directly to the brokerage service from
inclusion workers, schools, social workers and Family Liaison Officers if they have identified a need for
childcare for the families they are working with.
The Childcare Access Officer contacts providers and will accompany parents and children to settings if
that is helpful. They will work closely with Childcare Development Advisers in the Borough to ensure
that the widest possible range of provision is available for parents. Once suitable childcare is found, they
will arrange the terms and conditions between parents and providers and advise parents about how to
get help with costs. In some cases, the Childcare Access Officer can accompany the family on their first
day in the setting to ensure that everything runs smoothly.
If the Childcare Access Officer cannot find appropriate childcare, the reasons are recorded, analysed
and fed into the Borough’s wider childcare planning strategy."

Oh, you're on a low income. You must be an idiot, and incapable of rasing your own children. Don't worry, we'll come and kidnap them for you and make sure they meet our - sorry, their- outcomes.

[Mickey]

So more jobs are created for more peodophiles in more nurseries and childcare. Great.

[Ali P]

Originally Posted by Amy Thomson

Oh, you're on a low income. You must be an idiot, and incapable of rasing your own children. Don't worry, we'll come and kidnap them for you and make sure they meet our - sorry, their- outcomes.

That about sums it up, Amy.

All very reminiscent of Badman and his mates who fear the abandonment of the state brainwashing machine by the masses, most especially the thinking poor. The rich, meanwhile, have always had choices, but home ed (which disproportionately advantages children from poorer families) is just too dangerous to contemplate for the vested interests.

[Renegade Parent]

I have to pinch myself just to make sure I am not actually reading 1984 by accident.

I despise this professionalisation of parenting - and how easy it is to take advantage of people who are brought up to trust that the "experts" have their best interests at heart.

But more than that,I think, I despise the moves by so-called professionals to enforce this way of thinking by using their power to label parents incapable or dangerous.

[vinny]

About a month or so before my son turned four (this wais back in March I think) I got a card through the door from a group called the Plymouth Parent Partnership. They had apparently called round to ask why my son hasnt been registered for a school place. I thought they must be part of the council but they say they are 'impartial'.

They are so impartial, that the council gave them our details to check up on. How would they know we hadnt signed up to a school otherwise? I phoned up the number, nervous that this group were calling round unsolicited, to tell them I didnt need their support or advice, thanks anyway. They quizzed me why, and I said (which I regret now) 'my son is only three, and anyway I plan to home educate him'. They are so impartial that two days later I got a letter from Plymouth council 'exclusions' unit requiring the details of what colour pants I and my kids were wearing that day*, threatening me with 'possible court action' if I didnt comply.

They are threatening the parents of three year olds with court ffs. No part of the 'choosing a school pack' they sent me mentioned that Home Ed was even an option. The demanding letter and lengthy form they sent me threatened on one page then contradicted itself a couple later, stating that there was no law that made filling in their form necessary. Now Im just nervously waiting for them to send another, not sure whether to reply or wait for them to turn up on my doorstep.


*well they may not have wanted to know that, but they may as well have asked along with all the other intrusive questions on their 'home education application form'.

[Ali P]

According to their website, they give impartial information and advice to parents.

And my head buttons up the back.

I couldn't find a single reference to home education, or indeed any form of education other than the institutional variety. The lucrative 'unassisted' childcare market is clearly another prime target for them. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, anyone?

I'd want to find out how your personal details and those of your son got into the wrong hands, Vinny.

[Diane]

I started reading this thread and I thought 1984. I continued and now my jaw is under the table.

The terrifying part to me is that these 'people' are not government agents like the LA, they are from companies who take money to provide a 'service' but who are not accountable to us, the consumer of that service.

Very bad, very bad, says Diane, holding her head and searching for her jaw.

Diane
http://www.threedegreesoffreedom.blogspot.com

[vinny]

Originally Posted by Ali P

I'd want to find out how your personal details and those of your son got into the wrong hands, Vinny.

I would like to know that, but I also want as little contact with them as possible. I dont want to stir up anything thatll cause us, as a family, any grief. That is how I suspect they get away with all sorts, cos most people want to keep their heads down.