Letters: Letter of the week wins £30 worth of children'sbooks

Further to Helen Penn's column ('To the point', 13 September), she writes so much that most early years practitioners and experts would agree with and continually shout about - but nobody in authority seems to be listening. If under three years of age is the most critical time for brain development and the foundations for future functioning, then why do we not respond appropriately? We know that love matters and that strong bonding at this stage is crucial and that damage caused by lack of it cannot be remedied at a later stage. We...