The Childcare Bible

Sep 21, 2024 8:42 AM

Author:Lucy Martin

The Childcare Bible

For single parent families as well as those with two working parents, organising formal childcare can seem complicated and daunting. How are you to navigate your way through all the options available, work out what you can afford and plan all this around you or your partner returning to work?

In The Childcare Bible Lucy Martin offers clear, comprehensive guidance on the world of nannies, nurseries, childminders, and much more. As an ex-solicitor, working mother of three children and owner of a successful nanny-finding business Lucy is excellently placed to give you the best advice on how to negotiate the childcare minefield. Having interviewed parents across the country to ensure the widest range of concerns and issues are covered, The Childcare Bible tells you everything you need to know, including:

- What types of childcare are available and what they each offer

- How to evaluate a childcare provider or childcare setting

- What financial support you can get and how it works

- How to interview nannies and the relevant employment law issues

- How to decide whether returning to work is right for you

- What your rights are on returning to work

With checklists and case studies, this essential guide sets out the pros and cons, costs and implications of all available options. Accompanied by a regularly updated website containing the latest legal changes affecting childcare, The Childcare Bible makes organising the right childcare for your family a painless task.

Reviews

...a very substantial, detailed book. It should answer all your childcare questions and there should be little need to look elsewhere

—— Families Online

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—— Closer

Searingly honest . . . a fast-paced trip into a world most of us will never get to access

—— News of the World

An enlightening, exceptionally well-written confessional that makes us question our preconceptions about relationships

—— Manchester Evening Standard

Gasp-making, jaw-dropping and eloquently astounding

—— Irish Indepedent

Enright is such an original and witty writer. Her tone is utterly unsentimental and kept reducing me to tears

—— Zoe Heller

Anne Enright is an eloquent writer...dazzlingly funny

—— Penelope Lively

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—— Ian Sansom

A hopelessly vivid maker of sentence, of the sort you can't help reading aloud to whoever happens to be nearby... Ms. Enright's commentary on gender politics and babies, like a swimming pool illuminated by underwater lights, also casts an entrancingly strange glow

—— Dwight Garner , New York Times

Joyous!... very funny. With originality and truth, she perfectly nails the madness and simplicity of motherhood

—— i

a rich account...brilliant vignettes

—— Camilla Long , Sunday Times

This piercing memoir paints in vivid colours Julia Blackburn's nightmarish childhood

—— Alison Flood , The Telegraph

Blackburn tells us about these things in a compelling authorial voice which is by turns numb and incredibly sensitive

—— William Leith , Evening Standard

Brutally honest book ...deeply moving testament to the love that can somehow survive

—— Aimee Shalan , Guardian

An extraordinary family memoir... A bohemian classic

—— Week

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