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Our weekly columnist Beatrix Campbell says childcare policy should start with what children and their parents need Think back, those of you who are parents, to the early years of your little darlings' childhoods - that first step, the first word, the first joke, the unspeakable joy of recognition and reciprocation. Yes, the spectacular tantrums in Tesco. All those fond memories tinged with the tiredness.

Think back, those of you who are parents, to the early years of your little darlings' childhoods - that first step, the first word, the first joke, the unspeakable joy of recognition and reciprocation. Yes, the spectacular tantrums in Tesco. All those fond memories tinged with the tiredness.

Think, too, of the frazzled, frenzied business of organising childcare. So precarious, so complicated. It was an art and science of logistical management, working with infinite and fragile contingencies, wasn't it?

If we start with that memory and ask ourselves how all that could be done better, then we've got the template for the childcare debate we really should be having.

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