Keep the focus on childcare

FAIR play to the Irish Examiner for bringing to the attention of parents the inadequacies in crèches around the country (October 30).

Perhaps if newspapers in the past had paid similar attention to the ways young children were cared for, we would not have had so many horror stories and social problems in recent years.

I accept Ruth Cullen’s assertion (Letters, November 11) that the interest of the child is paramount and that when childcare inspections take place, there should be a focus also on the positive aspects of how crèches are run.