CHILD CARE expert Dr Penelope Leach has slammed politicians for making decisions about family issues they don’t fully understand.
Speaking to a packed tent at the Edinburgh Book Festival today (Tues), she said that the problem with the options available to parents today was that the policy makers have never experienced the problem themselves.
She said: “Hardly any politicians, academics or policy makers find it necessary to leave their own infants in the first few months in less than high quality child care.
“Quite a lot of them have no idea what it would be like to have no other choice.”
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