IN reply to Roger Davenport’s letter, Children forgotten in push to bolster workforce, Comment News, June 2, have you ever heard of childcare?
Most daycare centres take school-age children out of school hours and there are also some out-of-school care centres.
Of course, there’s a cost to childcare, but the lower your income the less you have to pay.
In New Zealand, where I’m from, it’s technically illegal to leave a child under 14 home alone, and I was surprised there’s no such law here, but I’m sure the great majority of parents don’t want to leave their primary school-age children alone regularly after school, especially into the evening.
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