The Guardian | ‘Why don’t men rebel?’: what the world can learn from childcare in Finland @theGuardian | Uploaded September 2023 | Updated October 2024, 1 week ago.
Finland is a world leader when it comes to early years education. Childcare is affordable and nursery places are universally available in a system that puts children's rights at the centre of decision-making.
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Now the country is applying the same child-first thinking to paternity-leave policies in an attempt to tackle gender inequality in parenting. The Guardian's Alexandra Topping travels to Helsinki to find out why the UK pre-school system lags so far behind and whether it really is easier to be a parent in Finland.
00:00 – Intro
00:44 – How much do you pay for nursery?
01:20 – Why can't UK parents send their kids to an idyllic childcare setting like this?
04:45 – Why don't men in the UK rebel? Equal parenting with Hanna Sarkkinen
06:07 – Finland puts the child's rights first
07:28 – Meeting a dad on shared parental leave
10:34 – What can the UK learn from Finland about pre-school education?
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Finland is a world leader when it comes to early years education. Childcare is affordable and nursery places are universally available in a system that puts children's rights at the centre of decision-making.
Subscribe to The Guardian on YouTube ► bit.ly/subscribegdn
Now the country is applying the same child-first thinking to paternity-leave policies in an attempt to tackle gender inequality in parenting. The Guardian's Alexandra Topping travels to Helsinki to find out why the UK pre-school system lags so far behind and whether it really is easier to be a parent in Finland.
00:00 – Intro
00:44 – How much do you pay for nursery?
01:20 – Why can't UK parents send their kids to an idyllic childcare setting like this?
04:45 – Why don't men in the UK rebel? Equal parenting with Hanna Sarkkinen
06:07 – Finland puts the child's rights first
07:28 – Meeting a dad on shared parental leave
10:34 – What can the UK learn from Finland about pre-school education?
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#Nursery #Education #Finland #School #Childcare #UK
