Reviving domestic service could revolutionise childcare

Rethinking our outdated notions of domestic service could revolutionise childcare for millions of people, says David Harding.

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A modern version of domestic service could give meaningful work to millions

Domestic service words redolent of Upstairs Downstairs, quietly unruffled butlers and The Forsyte Saga. But this image, embedded in the national consciousness through years of Sunday night dramas, gives a skewed picture of domestic service as it really was in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

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