Madeleine McCann And Missing Shannon Matthews In The Media

MADDYWATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann and Shannon Matthews DAILY MAIL: “The shocking truth behind daycare at nurseries and crèches” “Britain’s childcare industry is booming,” says Imogen Willcox, who has no children. But she knows. And she’s blonde. “Every working day, more than a million parents drop off their precious little cargos at childminders and private nurseries. All of them do it firm in the belief that those they trust with their babies are highly-qualified, strictly regulated and genuine, caring people. Terrifyingly, they are wrong.” Spread the fear: “During an eight-month investigation for the BBC1 investigative programme Whistleblower, I uncovered a childcare culture where a new career’s criminal records and references are never checked, yet they will immediately be left alone with young, vulnerable children.” You mean someone with a conviction for criminal damage, non-payment of their TV licence or being banned from driving can be in charge of a child!? And – worst of all – they may be left in the care of a childless TV reporter and Daily Mail writer posing as a caring nursery school helper as she snoops on her fellow staff members – those sad sacks circling life’s plughole without a media career!? Imogen Willcox carries secret filming equipment into nurseries. Sick? Certainly. Perverted? You decide. “The builders left their power tools inches away from where the children were playing and no one seemed to notice. I spent that particular session on tenterhooks,” says she. (more…)
	Published: 2008-03-05 Provider: Anorak