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By Alice Hill, published 10/9/2008Childcare as child protection: we need early childhood education and care for the kids who need it most.
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I couln't agree more.
Childcare centres should not be, predominantly, middle class welfare.
Any child not receiving adequate physical care or stimulating intellectual care should be the responsibility of all of us through our agent, a government body, assisted where possible by volunteers. We don't want the situation with institutionalised children as occurred in Rumania but we should be able to do better than that.
The old comment that, "We don't own our children; we borrow them from the future" comes to mind. Our community owes each child the best future we can provide.