You may have read the many national news stories last week reporting on the Duchess of Cambridge’s two-day whistle stop visit to Copenhagen – part of which was to learn about how Denmark promotes infant mental wellbeing alongside physical health, and how it harnesses the power of nature, relationships and playful learning in the first five years of life.
We often get exasperated when the Nordic childcare model is held up by British politicians and policy makers as the best example of childcare. They make it look like we could never be as good as our Nordic friends, but they fail to acknowledge the level of support, funding, and societal appreciation that underpins the Nordic childcare service which our Government does not provide here.
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