State must take a more active role in childcare

MOST childcare providers would agree that there should be more ‘accountability and transparency’.

In particular, they believe that ‘child development standards should be set and centres graded on their quality’, as Claire O’Sullivan’s article ‘Behind closed doors’ (Irish Examiner, March 25) recommends.

Providers, however, would argue, perhaps, that there is not a lack of regulation but rather a lack of enforcement of regulation.