NO: Purnima Tanuku, chief executive, NDNA
It would really be an extraordinary step for a Government to fund informal childcare - and a regulator's nightmare. The current system has been set up to ensure children's safety, so dismantling this could have serious implications. Children would miss out on socialising and interacting with others and on benefiting from early education, which has a huge positive effect on their long-term development. We agree parents should have more choice in childcare but the wellbeing of the child must be the priority.
NO: Nancy Platts, acting director, Daycare Trust
Children benefit from quality early education and childcare, in settings where they can interact with others and learn with professionals, and reap rewards now and later in terms of social and cognitive development.
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