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The shocking truth behind daycare at
nurseries and creches
by Imogen Willcocks, The Daily Mail (Britain) 6-Mar-08
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Britain's childcare industry is booming.
Every working day, more than a million parents drop off their precious
little cargos at childminders and private nurseries.
All of them do it firm in the belief that those they trust with their babies
are highly-qualified, strictly regulated and genuine, caring people.
Terrifyingly, they are wrong. During an eight-month investigation for the
BBC1 investigative programme Whistleblower, I uncovered a childcare culture
where a new carer's* criminal records and references are never checked, yet
they will immediately be left alone with young, vulnerable children.
(The reporter goes on to describe her
experiences when she went undercover to work at 4 daycares, from bad to
"award-winning")
...I don't yet have children but having seen what I've seen, I can't imagine I'll ever risk putting my own into childcare.
*Carer-
Caregiver
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Danger, Quality, Regulations |
The shocking truth behind daycare at
nurseries and creches
by Imogen Willcocks, The Daily Mail (Britain) 6-Mar-08 |
I was initially alerted to the scandal
by an inspector for Ofsted (the government agency that regulates
childminders and nurseries). She said that, as a parent of two children and
having inspected 700 nurseries with her colleagues, she had found only five
that she would have let her own children attend.
She also said that Ofsted inspection reports - the only safeguards that
parents have to go on when choosing a nursery - aren't worth the paper
they're printed on.
Category = Danger, Quality, Regulations |
Ethics@Work: More equitable ways of
subsidizing child care
by ASHER MEIR , The Jerusalem
Post (Israel) 17-Apr-08 |
The tax
benefit (recognizing child care expenses as a deductible business expense)
will only affect higher-income women, most of them married to high-earning
men, and most of them can "afford" to work in any case. This is a tax break
for the upper middle class (perhaps not coincidentally the class most judges
belong to).
Category =
Economics, Politics |
Ethics@Work: More equitable ways of
subsidizing child care
by ASHER MEIR , The Jerusalem
Post (Israel) 17-Apr-08 |
If you can't afford
to hire someone else to take care of your children so that you can take
another job, then evidently you are more productive in child care than you
would be in your other job.
We pointed out in another column
that "working mother" is a redundancy. Every mother works, it's just that
some work only at home while others have two workplaces. I don't see any
compelling reason for the tax code to give preference to one kind of work
(the kind that takes place out of the home) over another (the kind that
takes place in the home).
Category = Economics, Politics |
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