Editor's view

By Liz Roberts, editor, Nursery World, 17 June 2004

The amount of state intervention in the lives of individuals is a particularly pointed issue in childcare and parenting, with government interference in all areas constantly referred to as 'the nanny state'. So the new commission that has been set up to examine the relationship between the state and the family in bringing up children will have a tough job on its hands (see News, page 9). Even suggestions for universal state-funded children's centres tend to elicit accusations of unwarranted interference and restricting freedom of choice in family life.

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