Her report also called for a single funding system and for childminders to be able to register with a local agency, nursery or network which would take responsibility for inspection and training and be regulated by Ofsted.
Every political party now acknowledges the extent to which gaps open up in the first five years of a child's life that often stubbornly refuse to close, which is why the Labour government established an entitlement to nursery education, networks of children's centres and early intervention from birth for some families.
Such academies have proliferated in Senegal in the last decade, set up independently but now supported by a federation that realised the value of having a network of nurseries around the country.
The state provided special university courses for women, generous maternity leave and a comprehensive network of nurseries, even if social attitudes often remained behind the times: housework was still considered a female domain, a state-decreed monthly "household day" off work only available to women.
To exemplify, food secure and opportunity seeking farmers may invest land and labour in trees, nurseries and social networks while risk evading farmers are constrained by the 'food imperative', the 'health imperative' and poverty in and of itself.
The University of Miami operates one of a network of four nurseries that are growing elkhorn and other kinds of coral to transplant to reefs along South Florida's coast.
We don't have television, so Hannah Montana entered our lives on a DVD purchased because Madeleine had somehow found out about her through that underground toy-smuggling and gossip network also known as nursery school.
Social services withered or vanished, like the elaborate network of free day nurseries for working mothers in East Germany.
In Germany, a number of publicly financed research bodies were applying plant ecology science to the management of public parks, while in Britain, a growing network of small specialist nurseries was steadily increasing the number of perennial plants in cultivation.
In areas where an investor must build their own infrastructure, nurseries, tree breeding programmes, and contractor network, the timber investment returns would certainly be less.
