Media watch

Leaks about the content of the Government's ten-year strategy for universal childcare seeped into the national media last week. The Observer expected measures to boost training and pay for childcare workers, while the Sunday Times reported that the extended schools initiative 'may be linked to an offer that new parents should be entitled to up to a year off', part of which could be taken by the father. On the subject of the state's involvement in family life, Margarette Driscoll in the Sunday Times said, 'Not content with chivvying mothers back to work and putting children into wraparound childcare, Margaret...