Perspective: Putting a Little More Care Into Bringing Up Our Children ; As the Average Cost of Childcare Rises to More Than Pounds 20,000, Ros Dodd Argues That There Are Alternatives to Getting Other People to Look After Our Children

Birmingham Post › February 10, 2006

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DIY childcare is now such an alien and unfashionable concept that new research revealing the 'soaring' cost of full-time nursery provision in Britain (pounds 7,400 a year) was discussed in the media as if women had no option but to put their young children into nurseries.

There was no mention of the fact there is a perfectly good way to avoid shelling out an average pounds 142 a week on commercial childcare - and that's to stay at home.

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Perspective: Putting a Little More Care Into Bringing Up Our Children ; As the Average Cost of Childcare Rises to More Than Pounds 20,000, Ros Dodd Argues That There Are Alternatives to Getting Other People to Look After Our Children

The Government is just as disinclined to acknowledge that it is not compulsory for a mother to...

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