Sometimes if you want anything done about childcare, you have to do it yourself. Judith Napier meets the entrepreneur mothers
Sarah Carr decided, when her eldest daughter was three, that she should start mixing with other children her own age. But what she found back in the mid-1980s appalled her - church hall playgroups run by volunteers more interested in coffee and chat, and at the other end of the spectrum, private nurseries with condescending attitudes and frighteningly silent, cardboard cut-out-like children.
Looking back on this period, she recalls, 'I had never before had any dealings with childcare provision, but I had a gut feeling about what to expect. Good standard of accommodation, and basic cleanliness as a starting point. And I don't think I was being overly ambitious in that.'
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