Farewell to childcare: transforming England’s broken early childhood system

Date of Lecture: Thursday 11 May 2023 About the Lecture: Complaints at the high cost of ‘childcare’ keep coming - but high cost is just one symptom of a dysfunctional early childhood system in England, spanning services and parenting leave, a system that fails children, parents and society. Successive governments tweak and fiddle, avoiding the hard work of analysing and fixing systemic faults. Based on 50 years research at the Thomas Coram Research Unit (now part of UCL), and on how England and Sweden responded to similar problems with very different results, Peter Moss will offer a diagnosis of the state we find ourselves in today in England - and a possible course of treatment, starting with dropping our national obsession with ‘childcare’. About the speaker: Peter Moss, Emeritus Professor at Thomas Coram Research Unit at UCL