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 The statistics about nursery-care usage are deceiving unless analysed properly.

 Slammers – who put their babies straight into full-time daycare – make up less than 5 per cent of the UK’s parents.

 Sliders – who gradually use some care, often not starting until three years of age and often part-time – make up about 35 per cent.

 Those who use no group care at all, only themselves supplemented by grandparents and friends occasionally, make up around 60 per cent. Prominent in this sector are blue-collar parents and ethnic minorities.

 Catherine Hakim believes government policies should meet the needs of adaptive and stay-at-home parents, while at present they only serve the work-driven 20 per cent. She’s right.

 The big question is – what is best for the child?