E-Petitions

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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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• Nicola Ebden
• Shelley Smith
• jane phillips
• Adrian Redgers
• Hilary Evans
• Louise Nunn
• Laura Selway
• Tracey Sampson
• Sarah Ludbrook
• Eileen Mackay
• Elizabeth Corrigan
• m. gibson
• Daniela Gieseler
• E Shepherd
• Alan Price
• Susan May
• Brigitte Birch
• Ian Barber
• Frances O'Connell
• Kirsten Izatt
• Nina Vangerow
• Frances Freeman
• Mary McCartney
• Chris Parker
• Dr Kate Howard
• Sabine Depner
• Philip Simpson
• Nikki Ryce
• Mitch Crossingham
• Maria Wilby
• Julian Robbins
• Derek Archer
• Susan Sutton
• John Birtwistle
• Joy Stanley
• Penelope Aldred
• Maria Papadima
• Joni Hoult
• Fran Lewis
• Linda Kennedy
• Amanda Thomas
• Linda Barrow
• Margaret Lewington
• wendy veale
• Bryan Craig
• Ewen McIntosh
• Angela Voss
• michele moody
• Roberta Valquerizo
• monwara begum
• Amina Begum
• Sally Spigner
• Robert Matthews
• Liz Pilley
• Lynne Bragg
• Alison Whitting
• Rachel Jacobs
• suzanne harding
• Sara Hunt
• Vicky Armstrong
• Neil Diedrick
• Sue Norris
• siobhan wall
• L Peacock
• Sandra Mary Webster
• Peter Geraghty
• Ali Fitzpatrick
• David Watson
• Teresa
• John Smith
• Maxine Ferguson
• Elizabeth Chandler
• James Loudon
• Sarah Hunt
• Susan Barr
• richard john vale
• lindsay turnham
• Jules Beeston
• Heather Cashmore
• Karen McNerney
• Ilmarie Bennett
• Sarah Tozer
• Sarah Calderbank
• Graham Sutton
• Keith Allnatt
• Gill Taylor
• emma darlington
• jay darlington
• Toni Fagan
• Nicola Marson
• Alison Harris
• bev fletcher
• Beate Elverfeld
• Emma green
• Dave Timperley
• GLYNIS HOLMES
• T M Williams
• Pauline Michell
• Helen Renny
• jenny david
• Vanessa Morrissey
• Sophie Hooper Lea
• PatriciaHunt
• Kezia Whiteley
• Jennifer Edwards
• Elinor Edwards
• Sandra Edwards
• Sue Edwards
• michael Farmer
• Hilary Plant
• Becca Cranston
• Rachel Robertson-Brown
• Sophia Rowson
• Raphael Verrion
• Margaret Lee
• Robert Lee
• Jade Coombes
• Sian Hallam
• vanessa wilkinson
• Katrina Marsden
• Natasha Hasthorpe
• Laura Sanchez
• Katie Dicker
• Audrey Marsden
• Kathryn Sargent
• Nicola Mathers
• claire brown
• Sam Dale
• N Jennings
• Angie Butler
• Dawn Harrison
• Steve Edwards
• Anthony Gears MA AST
• Anne Hargreaves
• Linda Cook
• Theresa Anderson
• Nichola Peters
• karin burt
• Jess Dallinger
• julie baugh
• David Blundell
• Helen mcdonagh
• G. Gibson
• FIONA HAWLEY
• Pam James
• Kevin Buckley
• Diana Buckley
• Bettina Schwemer
• Veronica Barnsley
• Ruth Doye
• cathleen doye
• Helen Watts
• Kate Nash
• Samantha Hargreaves
• Kimberley Roberts
• Hannah Moorhouse
• shahnaz zarif
• Matt Olldfield
• Clare Carney
• Sam Butler
• Jennifer Ashworth
• john dowle
• rosemary james
• Jane Collins
• Bob Knowles
• keziah moynihan
• Joseph Phillips
• sophia rowson-wyatt
• Jane Goldsmith
• Andrew King
• Michelle Wren
• Deborah Mansell
• Georgina Konyves
• Jacqueline Parker
• Mrs S Lock
• samantha owens
• Cheryl J Winter
• elizabeth kerfoot
• Lisa Crittenden
• Alexandra Barnes
• Andrea Taylor
• Anna Batchelor
• Pamela Walsh
• Lucy Kratky
• Julian Pennant
• Jane Rolfe
• sara jane glendinning
• J Fraser
• Edward Mahony
• Chris Hall
• julia Challender
• Sandra Pierson
• alice crimini
• Emma Milliken
• Jill Marshall
• Lisa McCullagh
• Eleanor Bryant
• Paul Randon
• Hazel Jarman
• Judith Hearnshaw
• Rowan Elliott-Jones
• Peter Bostock
• Jo Lewis
• Helen Beardon-Hambleton
• Jack Cockburn
• Bryony Middleton
• barbara shaw
• Anne de Gruchy
• Jan Evans
• JO DALTON
• Alison Francis
• victoria Turner
• jennifer shukla
• Lynne Stembalski
• Alison Bartlett
• Jackie Vicary
• Sarah Fryatt
• amanda nathan
• Sally Newton
• Margaret Dennison
• Peter Walker
• Tina Hemming-Stevens
• Karen Wallis Alexander
• Margaret Thornton
• georgina allen
• Susan Howard
• Heather Layton
• Lynda Green
• Jennifer French
• lesley dannatt
• Ema Caldwell
• Jenny Hempstead
• Laurence Penney
• Kath Thompson
• Judith Isufi
• Diana Bell
• Catherine M York
• Kevin Alexander
• julie lees
• Sharon Cade
• Stephen Coomber
• Isobel Coomber
• emmalinzie
• Sheila Cook
• Joe Shaw
• Rhonda Richer
• zoe chapman
• Lindsey Billinge
• Christine Bailey
• Elaine Grimwood
• Linsey Young
• Pauline Johnson
• Gillian Shaw
• Nicola Braithwaite
• Sarah Dean
• Liz Turner
• Frances Matcham
• Christine Graham
• Norman Graham
• Jessica Hottinger
• Matthew Philpott
• john bearpark
• lesley weeks
• Jenny Plackett
• Rachel Charter
• Michael Biggs
• kirsty merritt
• Sally Greenwood
• James Hull
• Imogen Shepherd
• Daria Samsel
• John Swain
• Dr. Susan M. Arstall
• Tracy Tytherleigh
• Mairead Hegarty
• J RICHARDS
• Tricia Eastley
• Helen Hughes
• Susan Hughes
• Linda Uridge
• margaret morrissey
• Lisa Thomas
• Laura Jowers
• Katia Martinho
• Julio Gamba
• Susan Harper
• Peter Forster
• Sandra Wright-Perkins
• Sarah Gilluley
• ALISON SALIH
• Victoria Woollard
• ANETTE GALECKI
• Lisa Cavanagh
• Joe McDermott
• C Rowley
• D. Rowley
• Sheila Wearmouth
• Rose Bingham
• Gill Collins
• Joan Jones
• Carla Haddad Tarkan
• tserina poynder-meares
• Patricia Tucker
• Annabel Caulfield
• Alison Bennett
• rachel anderson
• Christopher Clarke
• Annette williams
• ebn
• James D'Angelo
• Dr. Dina Glouberman
• Ruth Garcia
• Annamarie Beresford
• Elspeth Jenkins
• Anna Dudman
• Catherine Johns
• rita bannon
• Sue Lanham
• Rowan Gordon
• Mike King
• charlotte ansell
• Denise Moll
• Sophie Tyrrell
• Sandra Thompson
• Ewan C. Forbes
• nikki wilkins
• Patricia Lowe
• sandra mapstone
• Johanna Clark
• Clare Weekes
• Kathi S Hughes
• Andrew Russell
• Janet Russell
• Natalie Philpott
• Chris Loynes
• Sylvia Karathanos
• Cassandra Fry
• Abigail Crichton
• Malin Whitfield
• Iryna Gryhorenko
• Lynn Down
• Alexandra Goodwin
• Carol Pariser
• Adrian Pariser
• amanda dance
• Felicity Shimmin
• Lisa Jackson
• Rosa Collins
• Rosetta Humphrey
• Stann L Whipple
• diane davison
• Angela Lamb
• Jan Hewitt
• maya lucas
• Veronica Hunt
• Helen Phillimore
• Liz Hallam
• susan turner
• Caroline BUrness-Smith
• Kay Nother
• Jane Elizabeth Altman
• sue byrne
• Phyllis White
• andrea morgans
• Rachel Boone
• John Morton
• Lisa Claire Jones
• Mary Fisher
• Alex Harrison
• Mike Barnes
• Rosemary Crosland
• Katherine Hutchins
• Louisa Farrow
• Alice Stuart
• JAN KING
• Mohammed Ashik
• margaret legg
• Bronwen Seaman
• Andrea Adams
• Heather Dibbins
• Heather Dibbins
• Linda Simkins
• Terri Mallon
• samantha J goodyer
• alison pickering
• Susan Wappett
• Tracy McDermott
• S. Davies
• Sue O'Reilly
• Sheila Fray
• Samantha Cannon
• Rosie Mockford
• J Pedley
• Laura Harding
• marilyn pybus
• Anna Kininmonth
• asma r abbas
• Carolyn Roberts
• Colin Buck
• Sophie Hughes
• amanda froude
• naomi dickie
• nicola mclean
• Dominie Stemp
• Lynn Daley
• Sara Crowther
• Danielle Didlock
• Will Mercer
• marie knight
• Fiona Megginson
• carole day
• Susan Aisthorpe
• S. Bradley
• Laura Hetherington
• Howard Koolman
• Rachael Walker
• Richard Gawith
• Katie Welch
• anita howarth
• Juliet Wilson
• sara burn
• Sarah Gothard
• Dawn Elizabeth Taylor
• Brian Cooper
• Paul Chaplin
• Paul Williams
• christine hollywood
• Elizabeth Dewdney
• bill parslow
• Lyndsey Alderson-Crombie
• Lloyd Sherratt
• Hayley Curtis
• Louise Melbourne
• Karen Adams
• Rachel McBride
• Aidan Shepherd
• lucie ward
• Natalie Cole
• Caroline ashworth
• Ana Palomo
• kim billinghurst
• Barbara Storch
• Finlay McFadyen
• Angie Ison
• Susan Johnson
• Barbara Phillips
• Nicholas Basden
• HP Lankes
• Victoria Whitworth
• bbb
• Catherine Turner
• Christina Olsen
• Naomi Standen
• Diana Paton
• Mimmi Smrt
• Jakob Wisse
• naomi itami
• Bharti Pancholi
• Polly Kempson
• Elanor Rhodes
• Mrs V B rown
• Eva-Lena Soderberg
• Sam Turner
• Luisa Riddell-Clark
• valerie bond
• Alison Sparks
• Nancy Laan
• Mary Devlin
• Alun Owen
• Donn pavey (mother of 5 and EY worker)
• Dr. Uta Blohm
• Eleanor Gibb
• Isabel Barrow
• Susannah Thorne
• Liam McGurrin
• April Parsonage
• Laura Smith
• Shahadath Hussain
• David Meechan
• Jaycee La Bouche
• toby williams
• Francisca Sconce
• heather kendall
• Morris.Durant
• sally waite
• lorraine how
• Andrew Parkin
• Patricia McConnell
• Errol McGlashan
• ANDREW KENDALL
• Susan Rogers
• carey hughes-parry
• Thomas Wright
• jenniwoolfe
• Dominique Bicker
• Joanne Bronkhorst
• Oliver Strahle
• Joanna Tomkys
• Marie Franks
• Leonie Wilson

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