Submissions

From: Peter Cook [pcook@midcoast.com.au]

Sent: Tuesday, 8 November 2005 11:11 AM

To: Family Responsibilities

Subject: Submission of Text of Cook: Early Child Care- Infants and Nations at Risk



Attachments: 051026 Cook's book Early Child Care pages 1-149 MS Word.doc; 051026 Cook's book Early Child Care pages 150-end MS Word.doc

051108 HREOC PC Submission Work & Family Responsibilities

The Secretary, 

Paid Work and Family Responsibilities Submission

Sex Discrimination Unit,

Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission

GPO Box 5218

Sydney NSW 2001

Tel: 02 9284 9600

Email: webfeedback@humanrights.gov.au

Dear Sir or Madam,

Re Inquiry:  Paid Work and Family Responsibilities Submission

Thank you for your phoned advice that you would accept a late submission for consideration into this Inquiry.

I am sending it by another email and hope it comes through satisfactorily.

Please would you confirm that it has.

I will not send it in hard copy, unless you let me know that this is quite necessary.

As advised there, I am herewith the digital text of the 1997 revised reprint of my book Early Child Care – Infants and Nations at Risk, with a Foreword by Professor Jay Belsky. (I personally gave a copy of this book to Ms Goward in 1997. May I suggest that a copy should be in HREOC's reference library.

I am sending this is partly in response to a statement in your Discussion Paper about the effects of early childcare, which I comment on in one of my appendices. It was statements such as the one you quote on the effects of daycare that originally prompted me to write the book.

Many thanks,

Yours sincerely,

Peter S. Cook.