Nursery World - Baseline protest group calls for assessment review after DfE U-turn

The Better Without Baseline Coalition is calling for a review of assessment and accountability for the early years following the scrapping of Baseline as a progress measure.

The Coalition, including many early years organisations and teaching unions, hailed the Government's U-turn last week on Baseline as a victory, and has issued an open letter offering to work with the DfE 'to develop more carefully thought-through approaches that have the best interests of the child at their heart'.

The DfE decided to abandon the Baseline for school accountability measures, after research concluded that the three assessments used by schools are not comparable. Schools will have the option to use the baseline in the 2016-17 academic year, as part of their ‘on-entry assessment’ for children starting school, and will be funded by the department to do so, however.

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