Telegraph front page - 'Day Nurseries may harm under-3s'

[amphion]

Interesting front page article in Saturday's Telegraph - "the proper development of the infant cortex depends on one-to-one loving care" - article said most nurseries do not at the moment provide this - but was in favour of relatives and childminders as secondary carers.
Also said that being looked after where there are different aged children is better than being with just peers. As a CM I loved this article . Seems to me that some nurseries are really going to have to look at their systems and try to make them more like a home environment.

can you link to article?

were there references?

IMO childcare research is notoriosly skewed by reporters, and the telegraph does have a little woman at home ethos, imo.

am somewhat suprised that they can be so confident about the "proper development of the infant cortex" tbh, and I think some neurologists might agree with me...

I know what you mean about the papers - I said to DH that the next article would probably be anti-CMs, but it was nice to hear something positive.

It was a letter written to the Telegraph by a group including "psychologist and author Steve Biddulph, Sir Richard Bowlby, the president of the Centre for Child Mental Health in London, and Prof Allan Schore, the renowned American child psychologist". It was a long article based it seems on a document by Sir Richard. It says the document can be found in full at: www.telegraph.co.uk

....btw it says "Sir Richard does not denigrate group care as such but suggests that the only type of nursery that can hope to provide appropriate care is one that mimics the care offered by loving, experienced and well-trained child minders, nannies, grandmothers or fathers."

this all got done on mumsnet yesterday I think

oh thanks, I'll look for it.