Tucked away in this year's Budget statement, Gordon Brown gave notice of yet another childcare review: 'I have asked the (next) Spending Review to examine the future of childcare and family-friendly policies'.
While a little mystifying - haven't we just had an Interdepartmental Childcare Review? - this announcement is still welcome. The review just passed was disappointing, being narrowly focused and uncritical. After six years of frenetic Government activity, a more thoughtful exercise is due that questions assumptions, confronts issues and is prepared to consider different futures. For the reality of the past six years is that so much has been more of the same.
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