'Since no other care provider may smoke over babies or smack children - no matter what their parents say - this decision singles out registered childminders as somehow less professional than nursery or playgroup staff ... The "parental choice" argument makes easy popular appeal but no real sense' Penelope Leach, president of the NCMA, in a letter to the Independent
Penelope Leach, president of the NCMA, in a letter to the Independent
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