The Daycare Trust's annual survey into the cost of childcare sparked a frenzy of media attention last week, after it was revealed that nursery fees had increased by more than three times the rate of inflation. The Times said that the situation was 'fuelled by a continuing and acute shortage of staff'. Teachers at a primary school in Wales encouraged a class of eight-year-olds to pick on each other 'to teach them about injustice', the Daily Mail said, until the exercise backfired and the children 'burst into tears after being called names'.
The Daycare Trust's annual survey into the cost of childcare sparked a frenzy of media attention last week, after it was revealed that nursery fees had increased by more than three times the rate of inflation. The Times said that the situation was 'fuelled by a continuing and acute shortage of staff'.
Teachers at a primary school in Wales encouraged a class of eight-year-olds to pick on each other 'to teach them about injustice', the Daily Mail said, until the exercise backfired and the children 'burst into tears after being called names'.
The Sun reported that 16-month-old Elliott Nightingale landed his dad with a 50 littering fine after throwing an empty can of Pepsi out of his pram, while elsewhere a boy of five escaped out of school and caught the bus to a supermarket to buy some cake.
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