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Lunch Hour Lecture | Farewell to childcare: transforming England’s broken early childhood system
11 May 2023, 1:00 pm–2:00 pm
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’.
This event is free.
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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
Peter Moss has spent the last 50 years researching into and thinking about early childhood services and systems, both in England and other countries. Other interests include the relationship between gender, employment and care; democracy in education; and social pedagogy. His most recent books are Transforming Early Childhood in England: Towards a democratic education (2020, co-edited with Claire Cameron); and Neoliberalism and Early Childhood Education (2021, with Guy Roberts-Holmes). He is currently writing a book about the common failings of early childhood systems in Anglophone countries, and how these might be fixed.