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Private Daycares Private Day Care Provision The article discusses the concerns in the Canadian day care industry which relate to the possible entry into the Canadian system of private day care centers. The article discusses the arrival in Canada of 'Fast Eddy' Groves, who owns a multi-million pound day care business in Australia. Groves has denied being interested in opening any day care centers in Canada at the present time.

The article suggests that contrary to this there is evidence which shows that Groves has already made moves to acquire some centers in Canada. The article claims that the company owned by Groves, ABC Learning Centers, is also linked to three other companies, two of which are used to source new business propositions for ABC Learning Centers. It is through these other companies that the company is currently seeking to expand into Canada. There are two main concerns which this move by Groves has raised.

The first of these relates to the accessibility issues which this take-over may cause. There are already problems in Canada with the rising costs of day care when compared to the increase in wages over the same period. The day care industry currently receives great supplementation by the government in order to ensure that it is accessible for a wide range of people. The introduction of 'for-profit' day care centers into the industry would raise prices. This would then limit the accessibility of the service for many users.

There are also concerns that the private day care centers would select the areas in which the largest amounts of supplementation are present in order to maximize profits. The second concern which has been raised relates to the quality of the services which are provided by the private day care centers. The article describes research which was conducted which showed that many of the staff who currently work for ABC Learning Centers would not allow their child to attend the centre.

This was much higher than the numbers of staff of the government-run day care centers, where only 4% were reported to be opposed to letting their child attend the centre where they worked. Paradigm Approach This article takes the social democracy paradigm. The article reflects an attitude which is in favor of equality and freedom. This is reflected in the attitude which the author has in which they emphasize that day care centers should be accessible by all.

The author of the article also clearly supports the notion of government intervention, as they are in favor of the day care centers remaining under the control of the Canadian government. The author appears to take a positive view of social welfare, as they are in favor of the government support which is given to those who cannot afford to pay for child care alone. T his also demonstrates that the author takes a positive view toward providing assistance to those who are casualties of capitalism.

The author is likely to have adopted this paradigm in the article as they have collected all of the information from sources which are involved in the industry and are opposed to the introduction of private day care centers. There is no suggestion that the author is personally involved in day care as they are a staff writer at the magazine, although they may be a stakeholder in the industry through their children. The article does not address the perspective of those in favor of private day care centers.

If this perspective were addressed in the article then it may take a different paradigm approach. Critical Analysis As mentioned above, the main criticism of the article is that there is no consideration of the alternative perspective in the article. For example while the statistics were given relating to how many staff would let their child attend the centre in which they worked there was no other information given as to the other information collected.

There may have been other findings from that same research which were positive toward the private day care centers. There are several claims made.