After decades of struggle for women to have equal rights to work and to increase the availability of decent childcare, it is a particularly tricky area even to discuss, raising as it does feelings of guilt and deeply polarised opinions. And it is the business of so many dedicated and skilled providers in the early years sector.
This does not mean that we should just avoid the subject, however, as it needs to be considered as part of how we want early childhood services to develop in the future.
Sally Goddard Blythe is not afraid to look at the needs of the youngest children in her article 'First love' (pages 24-25), particularly as the latest government incentives to encourage mothers to return to work seem more driven by economics than ever.
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