Assurance for working parents - Impact of early childcare

As every parent knows, the first five years of life are of critical importance in children’s cognitive development, and it is often with a heavy heart that parents leave their child in the care of another while they work.

Therefore, the results of a study into childhood development will bring relief for many working parents who often feel guilty that they have to spend so many hours every weekday apart from their children.

The study into the effects of early childcare finds there is no difference in brain development between children who are looked after in the family home and those looked after outside it, whether by grandparents, childminders, or in a crèche.