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• Labour plans to boost school nurseries ‘make a lot of sense’

  09-06-2024 21:55
  
  Commenting on Labour proposals to create 3,000 new school-based nurseries, UNISON assistant general secretary Jon Richards said:
  “Childcare has become a nightmare for many parents, especially the less well-off.
  “That’s because the larger private equity-backed nursery firms follow the money and pay staff low wages to get higher returns. That leaves less-affluent parts of the country poorly served.
  “New nurseries attached to schools could make the world of di
  
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• More than one kind of censorship

  09-06-2024 16:30 via publiclibrariesnews.com
  
  EditorialA fair bit about censorship in the UK this week, although from a different slant to what we are used to from the USA. Over here the articles are from several generally right-wing newspapers, and whatever GB News is, complaining about the ease with which children’s books can be banned. One ban is because of the use of the word “n*****” and the classic Fungus the Bogeyman ban is due to the use of the “g******g”. Both words, to be fair, especially the n* one,
  
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