Babies too vulnerable to be left in ‘stranger care’

I watched the Prime Time creche investigation a week after it was aired. It was worse then I expected.

Having written many times in the past in the letters page of this newspaper regarding the unsuitability of minding of young children under three in creches, what disgusted me most, was the ongoing commentary by so-called experts as to what was right and what was wrong as they monitored footage of the behaviour of childcare workers in the highlighted creches.

Without a shadow of doubt, what the viewers witnessed was child abuse of the highest order. To me, however, what I witnessed was people who were educated and knowledgeable in the area of early childhood development, defending, promoting and in total denial of what is internationally known, that creches are not suitable places for children under three.