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I read with interest two news stories on the same page of the 4 September edition of Nursery World. In the first story, 'Benefits costed in daycare for all', Rosemary Murphy, chief executive of the National Day Nurseries Association, is quoted as saying that Government policy 'has been about getting people back to work as a means of eradicating child poverty'. The second story, 'School readiness gap is debated' quotes Ofsted chief inspector David Bell as saying that 'children's verbal skills are lacking' and that parents need to be encouraged to 'talk to their children and give them a whole range of stimulating things to do'.

In the first story, 'Benefits costed in daycare for all', Rosemary Murphy, chief executive of the National Day Nurseries Association, is quoted as saying that Government policy 'has been about getting people back to work as a means of eradicating child poverty'. The second story, 'School readiness gap is debated' quotes Ofsted chief inspector David Bell as saying that 'children's verbal skills are lacking' and that parents need to be encouraged to 'talk to their children and give them a whole range of stimulating things to do'.

I would like to know just when these pressured parents are going to be home to talk to their children and provide them with stimulating things, when both parents are being encouraged to work and the early years sector is being promoted as a viable alternative to home life.

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