'Profit motive marrs private care quality'

The quality of childcare in the private daycare sector is a 'real concern' that is not being acknowledged by the Government, a leading academic warned last week. Speaking at the launch of a new pamphlet, Family Fortunes - the new politics of childhood, published by the Fabian Society left-of-centre think-tank, Dr Helen Penn of the University of East London told Nursery World that 'in the need to make a profit, the temptation is...