As Tim Thorlby asserts:
'We tend to overestimate what we can achieve in one year & underestimate what we can achieve in ten years'...
And this he illustrates in his discussion of the benefits of the Sure Start programme; an early education intervention programme that was a key New Labour policy.
Nowadays its easy to deride Blair's Govt. for its 'neoliberalism' or ts role in the invasion of Iraq, but we shouldn't forget where they got it right!
#education #politics
https://www.beautifulenterprise.co.uk/insight/sure-start
Beautiful EnterpriseDelivered! Economic policies that worked: Sure Start — Beautiful EnterpriseBy Tim Thorlby 5 min read This is the second blog in a series looking at some of the UK’s most successful economic policies - and what we can learn from them. In this blog we review the lessons from Sure Start, a major early intervention programme still impacting today.
Donald Roy @djr2024@mastodon.social
This was borne out by an evaluation -which the then #conservative #wandsworthcouncil commissioned - which found very substantial beneficial effects.