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Fri 11 Nov 2009Early childcare the 'best investment'
THE BEST long-term investment the Government could make to ensure Ireland’s economic recovery would be in early child-care and education, according to a new group of childcare advocates.
The Start Strong network, which has more than 90 members including the Children’s Rights Alliance, Barnardos and the National Parents’ Council, was formerly the Irish Childcare Policy Network. It announced its “Children 2020” campaign yesterday, saying the current “patchwork response” to early education meant Ireland was “bottom of the league” of 25 OECD countries.
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