Parents are ?abdicating their responsibility? by leaving children in school for up to 10 hours a day, according to a leading head teacher.
Some mothers and fathers ?dump? pupils at breakfast clubs and pick them up late in the evening because of the demands of work, said Mick Brookes, general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers.
Britain?s so-called ?back to work culture? – which has also prompted many parents to place children in nurseries from a young age – risked undermining family life, he said.
