Article from Times 2 today.
here
Have read with interest as DH is currently SAHD due to redunancy over a year ago, so my youngest, (DS) has only been cared for at home with a parent. He is 20 months old.
My DD is at pre-school and starts reception in Sept. She had a nanny for the first couple of years until DH got made redundant.
DH is trying hard to get back into full time work and nursery was/is something we are considering. We certainly could no longer afford a nanny for one on one childcare.
I'm particularly interested in anyone who can confidently refute this quote from Steve Biddulph:
"quality nursery care for young children doesn't exist. It is a fantasy of the glossy magazines."
On the one hand I am furious that such an article gets printed as so many of us are between a rock and hard place when it comes to just surviving, and nurseries are often the only solution.
On the other hand, if any of this is actually true, then as a society, we need to start having this debate/conversation - surely?