ABSTRACT
Political and social involvement in terms of resources, values and priorities also heavily involve the legal system, as recent court cases involving disputes over dyslexia support, and remediation have shown. Politics will therefore inevitably be implicated in the management of early years settings and their workforce, because of the importance of their work to the future of the country, to economics, social and cultural management and ideology. Legislation such as the National Literacy Policy, introduced under the Blair Government in 1998, was called the Search-lights policy; this was later repealed in 2005, but is a classic example of this highly centralised system and interventionist approach to education. The dyslexia 'industry' can potentially play upon the vulnerability of parents who are desperate to do the best for their children. The importance of training is mentioned in the Code of Practice, but unless there are an appropriate number of suitable training courses and suitably qualified trainers.
