Fight the poverty of modern values
Wednesday, September 24, 2003
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'.
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