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Our weekly columnist Beatrix Campbell sees a link between vocational education and better funding for childcare When I was a girl I wanted to be a hairdresser. No idea why - the first time anyone other than my mother cut my curls I cried all the way home.

When I was a girl I wanted to be a hairdresser. No idea why - the first time anyone other than my mother cut my curls I cried all the way home.

Maybe the longing remained because my doll's hair was the only part of her person that could be transformed. Later in life, I contemplated bus-driving or childcare - all soothingly practical. I'm sure I was not alone.

Then I interviewed a reception class in a school in a neighbourhood ravaged by riots, in search of a child's-eye view of life on the hard edge. Thank goodness Miss remained in the room. I was just a person, a scribe. She was there as a childcare professional. Without her, there could not have been a conversation.

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