Precious Little Burdens; Child-care Costs  

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Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 401 no. 8758 (Nov. 2011), page 66.
Topik: Day Care Centers; Certification; Social Conditions & Trends; Child Care; Statistical Data

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Child care has increasingly become a profession. According to data released by the Office for Standards in Education on October 27th, the number of registered child-minders reached its lowest point in September 2010 and has since recovered slightly. The new lot are certainly better qualified. But professionalisation has also pushed up the price of child care, defying even the economic slump. For years after the government first began in 2001 to twist the arms of anyone who looked after an unrelated child to register with the schools inspectorate, the numbers so doing fell. Kind but clueless neighbours stopped looking after little ones, who were instead herded into formal nurseries or handed over to one of the ever-fewer registered child-minders. The decline in the number of people taking in children now appears to have halted. According to data released by the Office for Standards in Education on October 27th, the number of registered child-minders reached its lowest point in September 2010 and has since recovered slightly.

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