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I note the committee's concerns about extending the bill to cover independent schools and the pre-school sector. Problems would arise in implementing what the committee has asked for.
It addresses a number of issues, including pre-school education, transport, the relevance of the curriculum and alternative provision to school-based education.
How in your work as MEPs do you do that at the pre-legislative stage? My impression, having visited Denmark as part of the inquiry, is that it has a much better co-operative approach.
Finland was the top-ranking country in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development report on schools last year. Finnish children start pre-school at six and begin formal education a year later.