{"id":4974,"date":"2013-04-21T06:05:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-20T23:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/doubts-over-childcare-expert-feted-by-tories\/"},"modified":"2016-02-17T03:21:59","modified_gmt":"2016-02-16T20:21:59","slug":"doubts-over-childcare-expert-feted-by-tories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/doubts-over-childcare-expert-feted-by-tories\/","title":{"rendered":"Doubts over childcare 'expert' feted by Tories"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nSwede who briefed MPs on peril of pre-school daycare admits he has no academic degreeA Swedish childcare “expert” who was called to brief MPs last month on the dangers of subsidised daycare has been attacked as “unscientific” and “unqualified” by the author of the main study on which he drew.Jonas Himmelstrand, the keynote speaker at a House of Commons event organised by the campaign group Mothers at Home Matter, linked near-universal pre-school daycare in his country to an alarming decline in adolescents’ mental health and educational achievement, as well as to rising youth suicides. “This is a dream which failed, which any country attempting to emulate should be warned about,” he said. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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