Who Needs Nurseries?: We Do!

Helen Penn

doi:10.46692/9781447372257

The role that nurseries play in supplementing family care is an important subject - but in the UK, there is currently little consensus about what nurseries should provide, how they should be run, and who should pay for them. In this book, Helen Penn asks: is there a more considered way ahead?

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We Do!

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Frontmatter
pp i-ii

Contents
pp iii-iii

List of figures and tables
pp iv-iv

Acknowledgements
pp v-vi

1 - Introduction
pp 1-6

2 - Who and what are nurseries for?
pp 7-25

3 - Private sector childcare
pp 26-43

4 - Mothers: what do they want?
pp 44-56

5 - Who works with young children?
pp 57-67

6 - International comparisons in childcare
pp 68-81

7 - Inspection, monitoring and regulation of nurseries in England
pp 82-91

8 - What does a nursery place cost and who should pay for it?
pp 92-104

9 - The child at the centre
pp 105-120

10 - Why we need nurseries and what we can do about it
pp 121-124

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