Millennium year 2000 must surely go down as one of the busiest yet in the early years field. From the enthusiastically received, hard-fought for Foundation Stage introduced in September, to the highly controversial consultation on the National Standards for the Regulation of Day Care, Government initiatives have animated, energised and galvanised childcare professionals. There has been the DfEE's recruitment campaign to woo 83,000 childcarers into the profession by 2003; disquiet about the number...