One thing you can be sure of when childcare is the subject of debate is that reason goes out of the window. My heart sank last week when I saw the headlines about Unicef?s latest report on education and childcare in the developed world, all along the same lines: ?British children suffering as mothers are forced back to work?. Oh, please.
Unicef?s study, carried out by the Innocenti research centre in Florence, ranked Britain joint 11th out of 25 countries ? behind France, Hungary and Slovenia ? for the quality of its childcare policies and provision for young children. The categories are pretty coarse. It suggested that government policy, in extending nursery care, may be running counter to ?today?s knowledge of the critical development needs of very young children?.
If you are looking for good quality childcare, visit our sister site, www.lookforchildcare.co.uk – the free directory connecting parents to childcare providers.
