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The Guardian view on nurseries: some things are going right for under-fives | Editorial
The Guardian view on nurseries: some things are going right for under-fives | Editorial. England’s strong results in an early learning study are a Sure Start legacy that ministers must build on Recognition of the importance of babyhood and early childhood continues to grow. It is widely understood by many ordinary people, as well as experts, that what happens to us when we are very small, and our brains are at their most malleable , has lasting effects. As the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) put it in a study of early years education , “the first five.