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Focuses on the importance of integrated British governmental policies for child care and early childhood education. Hope that the Green Paper `Meeting the Childcare Challenge' is a sign that such policies are closer to reality; Question of Treasury response to overlapping strategies; The National Children's Bureau publication of `Quality in diversity in early learning.'

Focuses on the British government's plan to train 100,000 child care workers between 1998 and 2003. Measures promoted by a Green Paper called `Meeting the Child Care Challenge'; Number of further education colleges that include child care courses in their syllabus; Need for more money invested in training programs; Comments from Tricia Pritchard of the Professional Association of Nursery Nurses.

Discloses that the British government has indicated that it no longer intends leaving child-care services to the mercy of market forces. Junior minister Cheryl Gillan's launching of a consultation paper on creating a national child-care framework; Gillan's defense of the government's record in providing help for working parents; Percentage of women in the workforce.