As part of our new parenting section, we are selecting some of the best content from our archive. This piece was originally published in March 2023I first learnt to worry about childcare when my daughter, now five, was three days old. I cried as the health visitor explained I’d left it far too late to secure her a nursery place for a year’s time. As those newborns grew, childcare slots would become a similarly sought-after commodity. Finding one was high on my to-do list but, naively, I concentrated on having the baby

Source: The Times March 14, 2025 14:03 UTC