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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle

BIZARRE: Crap government is the problem not crap parents - What They Never Told You

Mother sat with child worrying about her finances
‘Is disquiet at dwindling, inaccessible, nursery and pre-school provision just the ungrateful voice of the low-paid?’ Photograph: Getty/iStockphoto

James Daly (Tory MP says most struggling children in his area are ‘products of crap parents’, 29 December) doesn’t address what lies beneath the “inadequate parenting” he refers to and what has contributed to the problem of children lacking “stability”.

His Conservative government got rid of the excellent Sure Start scheme introduced by Labour to help parents understand how to relate to their young children when they perhaps had no good model of parenting themselves.

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