Early years experts are calling for the reinstatement of the Early Years Foundation Stage Profile, following the Department for Education’s decision to scrap the Reception baseline as a progress measure.
The Better without Baseline coalition of academics, sector organisations and teaching unions, among others, is urging the DfE to return to what it views as a more holistic way of assessing young children.
The campaigners hailed the Government’s U-turn last week on Baseline as a victory and 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’.
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