Providing appropriate childcare for ethnic minority families remains an ideal that is poorly served in reality and often misunderstood by policymakers, says Wendy Wallace
When Sister Joseph Harding opened the Caribbean Day Nursery in the north London borough of Hackney in 1992, parents came from up to 15 miles away to enrol their children there. 'They came to get a Caribbean nursery, run by a black person, because they wanted a home- from-home atmosphere,' she says. 'One parent who was doing a psychology degree told me she'd looked at nurseries where 90 per cent of the children were black, but all the staff were white. She thought that would be damaging for her child.'
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