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Analysis: Government policy - Are we a childcare nation?
Nursery World,
24 October 2007
Families still face many hurdles to accessing universal, high-quality childcare, despite progress by policymakers. Sharon Charity of Daycare Trust looks at what the Government could be doing to clear the way for them.
Twenty-one years ago, when a group of pioneering women founded Daycare Trust, childcare was seen as a family matter. The very rich had nannies, highly-paid professionals used the small number of private day nurseries. Nursery education, with its proven benefits for children, was overwhelmingly in the private sector, accessible to only a tiny minority and receiving no government subsidy. Daycare Trust, with the National Centre for Social...
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