The Granny State ; As Msps Recommend Training for Grandparents in Looking After Children, Welcome To...

Mail on Sunday › August 24, 2006

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GRANDPARENTS who look after their grandchildren are to be targeted for 'retraining' in childcare techniques under controversial Scottish parliament plans.

MSPs believe the tuition would bring grandparents up to date on how to care for their grandchildren.

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The Granny State ; As Msps Recommend Training for Grandparents in Looking After Children, Welcome To...

But the move has been ridiculed by senior citizens' groups and opposition MSPs, who claimed it was like 'teaching your granny to suck eggs'.

The proposal, from the Scottish parliament's education committee, was i...

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