Pre-school Learning Alliance
Pre-school Learning Alliance is an early-years educational registered charity and a voluntary sector provider of childcare for young children in England.[1][2]
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[edit] Early days
In 1961 a reader of the Manchester Guardian, Belle Tutaev, pointed out the inadequacy of state-provided nursery education in the UK. She set up her own playgroup by co-operating with a neighbour. Her suggested Nursery School Campaign resulted the formation of the Pre-School Playgroups Association (PPA) on 16 July 1962.[3][4][5][6]
The PPA received a grant that year from the Nuffield Foundation, and in 1966 from the Department of Education and Science, at which point 600 groups were affiliated.[7] The Plowden Report of 1967 recognised the value of playgroups.[8]
[edit] The PLA
The change of name occurred in 1995, and followed organisational changes.[9]
[edit] References
- ^ Fitzgerald, Damien; Janet Kay (2007). Working Together in Children's Services. Routledge. p. 41. ISBN 9781843124672.
- ^ charitiesdirect.com
- ^ http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2002/sep/18/guardianobituaries.gender
- ^ Changing Curriculum for Early Childhood Education in England
- ^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/mid/sites/newtown/pages/playgroups_association.shtml
- ^ Elizabeth Wilson, Only Halfway to Paradise: women in postwar Britain, 1945-1968 (1980), p. 183; Google Books.
- ^ Nanette Whitbread, The Evolution of the Nursery-infant School: a history of infant and nursery education in Britain, 1800-1970 (1972), p. 115; Google Books.
- ^ Katherine M. Hirst, Cathy Nutbrown, Perspectives on Early Childhood Education: contemporary research (2005), p. 14; Google Books.
- ^ http://www.nurseryworld.co.uk/news/1056180/Analysis-Pre-School-Learning-Alliance---Happy-birthday-PLA/
[edit] Further reading
- Brenda Crowe (1973), The Playgroup Movement
[edit] External links
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