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Corporate care in question
By Catherine Gaunt,
Nursery World,
26 September 2007
An Australian academic has questioned whether the global growth of the world's largest daycare provider, originating in Australia, is at odds with good quality childcare and early education.
ABC Learning, the parent company of Busy Bees, bought Leapfrog Day Nurseries last month and is now the largest nursery chain in the UK. In Australia, ABC's presence dominates the sector. It owns 29 per cent of 3,886 for-profit childcare centres and 21 per cent of a total of all 5,372 childcare centres. Professor Jennifer Sumsion from Charles Sturt University in New South Wales says questions should be asked about whether the...
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