In a keynote address at the conference, 'Childcare's Changing Britain - Childcare for All: From Vision to Reality', Patricia Hewitt stressed the growing economic and social importance of childcare. She said it 'increasingly is a central part of our entire economy' and is 'an important business sector in its own right'.
Ms Hewitt said, 'Childcare as a business sector, childcare as a central part of our economic infrastructure, is just as important as the transport system in enabling women, in particular, to participate in the economy for their own benefit, but also of course the benefit of the economy as a whole.'
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