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 “We will be offering free universal education to every child – from nursery school at three” was the promise of British Prime Minister Gordon Brown to Labour Party Conference.“All this is part of the revolution in services for parents and

In Slovenia, at the beginning of the transition (1990), the share of the women in the full time employed labor force was already 48%, and Slovenia had the highest percentage of full time working mothers with pre-school children in all Europe. One

The Socialist Prime Minister of Spain, José Luis Zapatero, has promised universal education for children aged 0 to 3 years.The proposal is due to be officially approved by the Government’s Council of Ministers before the summer break.The

The Lithuanian delegation of the Socialist Group in the European Parliament organised a seminar on child care in the Lithuanian Parliament in Vilnius on 31 May, with more than one hundred party activists and representatives from local NGO’s and

The Movement of social-democrats of Cyprus - EDEK – seized the opportunity of their Party Congress to demonstrate their support for child care by making their own child care petition Book and collecting signatures – as well as by showing the

Child care is not a parking place but a once in a lifetime chance to acquire social and learning skills was the message from speaker after the speaker at the SPD/PES Women Seminar on child care in Berlin on 12 June.“Children need children” was

"My ambition is to double the present number of creches in 4 years” these were the words of PASOK Leader George Papandreou addressing his party Congress in May.Our Greek Socialist Leader was outlining one of the key commitments in a proposed

The Belgian Parti Socialiste has made an innovative and ambitious proposal to create nurseries in and around railway stations in order to increase the number of pre-school child care places and make nurseries more accessible to parents who have to

From 2013, parents in Germany will have a legal right to a child care place from the first year of their children’s life – thanks to the social democratic party SPD!In a meeting of the Government’s coalition committee earlier this month, the

The Sofia Discussion club for Social Local Policy has taken the PES Child care campaign to its heart, and produced an excellent leaflet on child care in their country. Below we publish extracts of the leaflet in English.  From 1995 to 2001 over 18