Having admired you for many years as an intelligent woman making a positive contribution to intellectual debate in the field of education, I was saddened to read your comment made at the Edinburgh International Book Festival that 'the childcare system consists of amateurs without qualifications' (Quote of the week, 22 August).
I qualified in 1973 with the NNEB certificate at a time when the Labour MPRenee Short was promising free state childcare for all under-fives. I have worked, for meagre pay, in different branches - in a primary school, as a hospital playworker, as a childminder and latterly in a private day nursery. In all these settings the high level of commitment and the professional approach of my colleagues has been obvious to anyone who cared to observe them.
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