September brings new routines: the school run, nursery drop-offs, and now, for many families, access to 30 hours of funded childcare. It’s a big help - but as many news reports this week have been highlighting - it doesn’t solve everything…
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Smelling the coffee
By the time you read this, your New Year's resolutions may no longer be foremost in your mind. Perhaps they've quietly fallen by the wayside - or perhaps they imploded in a puff of wheatgrass-smoothie-fuelled smoke at some point last week. You may have spent the first week of January declaring that this year you'd practise the saxophone for three hours every day, only eat hand-stroked vegetables grown in the Outer Hebrides, or never argue with your teenage offspring ever again about the levels of hygiene observed in their bedrooms…