Rumbold (1990)

(page numbers in brackets)

Preliminary pages (i-vi)
Correspondence, Contents, Membership

Part 1 (1-32)
Issues and proposals

Part 2 (33-47)
Material to aid practitioners

References (48-49)

Annex 1 (53)
Evidence received
Annex 2 (54-55)
Statistics
Annex 3 (56-60)
Childcare services in Europe


The Rumbold Report (1990)
Starting with Quality

The Report of the Committee of Inquiry into the Quality of the Educational Experience offered to 3 and 4 year olds, chaired by Mrs Angela Rumbold CBE MP

London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office 1990
© Crown copyright material is reproduced with the permission of the Controller of HMSO and the Queen's Printer for Scotland.

Notes on the text

The full text of the report (including the Annexes) is online.

The report is divided into two parts, and as the chapters are short (some are less than a page), I have presented it in two web pages (Parts One and Two), followed by the References and three Annexes.

The formatting of the text (bold, italics, centred etc) is a reasonably accurate representation of the printed version.

There are three exceptions to this:

1. In Part One, the text is printed in two columns to a page; in Part Two, there are three columns to a page. Although it would have been possible to reproduce this arrangement, I decided it would be inconvenient on the computer screen - the reader would have been forced to keep scrolling up and down. The text is therefore presented here in a continuous single column.

2. There are three tables in Part One. They are shown here as links: clicking on one opens a new window displaying the relevant table.

3. Two methods of highlighting are used in the printed text: a medium bold type and a heavy bold type. I have reproduced the former as italics and the latter as bold type.

The pages presented here are therefore not exact facsimiles of the original printed version: in addition to the above, the font (Times, Arial etc) and size of print - and therefore the number of words to a line and lines to a page - are determined by the settings you have chosen for your web browser.

Preliminary pages