Child care conference
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THE NATIONAL Child Care Campaign is holding its first major conference on research - and theory, titled Childcare And The State, from 5pm on Friday 18th September until 3pm Sunday 20th September, at the Cooperative College, Stanford Hall, ! Loughborough, Leicestershire.
It has been organised jointly by the NCCC and the Co-Op Union Education Department.
The Conference programme includes:
• War in the nursery, by Denise Riley, • Conspiracy or chaos, • Variations in local authority provision, by Andrew Bebbington, • Example of Third World childcare in the Caribbean, ( by the Grenada Women's Organisation, • The overlap between voluntary and state sectors, by Linda Haddock, • and a paper to be presented by Pat Petrie on what childminding has offer.
There will also be a paper on 'Men's Appropriation of Women's Labour: Childcare" , to be presented by Diane Leonard, and directed at a panel of men who (directly or indirectly) have responsibility for provision or policies on childcare.
While the agenda (and the cost - £28 for a residential place and £17 for non-residential) is specifically aimed at academies, it is important that there is a presence. however small, from working-class women active in struggles for child-care provision.
There will be a number of free places, and a grant for help with fares has been applied for from the Equal Opportunities Commission.
For further details and a booking form apply to: Bob Cartwright (Childcare School), Education Department, Co-Op Union Ltd, Stanford Hall, Loughborough, Leics.
*The next national meeting of NCCC - open to al affiliates - is on Sunday 22nd August, from 1lam, at 17 Victoria Park Square, London E2. Nearest tube: Bethnal Green.