The National Day Nurseries Association has said the research, led byProfessor Jay Belsky at Birkbeck University, will needlessly worryparents and conflicts with research showing children who attendnurseries grow up to be higher achievers.
Belsky's research is based on findings from a study of 1,364 children inthe US from the age of one month to 11 years, monitoring their childcareexperiences and measuring their development.
The research revealed that the more time children spent in childcarecentres from birth to the age of five, the more aggressive anddisobedient teachers rated them during their primary school years,regardless of the quality of the childcare received. But it also notedthe higher-quality care a child received, the better their languageabilities.
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