Telegraph.co.uk | One mother in three is unhappy with child care

By Sarah Womack, Social Affairs Correspondent
(Filed: 16/10/2006)

'[...] Today's survey of 2,000 mothers, whose average age was 32, was commissioned by the Discovery Home & Health channel for a programme about nannies. It found that a third of mothers were unhappy with the care their child received.
Unsurprisingly, seven out of 10 working mothers said their child was happier with them than at nursery, but 69 per cent also thought too many children were now in full-time child care.
Mothers had a host of complaints about their child's nursery - 56 per cent thought the nursery had let their child sleep too long, 34 per cent thought the treatment their child received was generally poor, and a third said the nursery staff lacked common sense or showed them little respect. [...]'

Discovery Channel enters the early childhood policy fray?