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Universal access demanded for children's centre services
By Melanie Defries,
Nursery World,
13 March 2008
Parents want children's centre services to be available for all families, not just the disadvantaged, according to a survey by children's charity NCH.
The poll of 1,180 adults found that 85 per cent felt that parenting, education and healthcare services would be useful and 90 per cent believed they should be available to all. However, it also found people perceived there to be a stigma attached to parenting classes, with 61 per cent saying they could be put off attending for fear of being labelled a 'bad parent'. For the research, part of NCH's Growing Strong campaign, (News, 28 June 2007), focus groups met with...
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