Childcare Campaign: Supporters rally to the cause

HUNDREDS of people have contacted The Independent to lend their support to the campaign. They include:

Helen Wilkinson, Demos; Sheila Kitzinger; Women's Employment, Enterprise & Training Unit, Norwich; Kamlesh Bahl, Equal Opportunities Commission; Sibyl magazine; The Community Practitioners' and Health Visitors' Association; John McLaughlin, Northolt; Alison Purver, Leeds; David and Liz Copeman; Mina Blythe, Bristol; Melissa Slater; Dr Ijeoma F. Uchegbu, University of Strathclyde; Kate Holden; Penelope Overton, St Albans; Magdalena Ietswaart, Aberdeen; Andrew Smith, Secretary, Scottish Young Liberal Democrats.

Kate Moore; Kate Royce, senior librarian, Guildhall School of Music and Drama; Fiona Talkington; Lyndsey Unwin; Ani Devlia; Sally Wilson; Graham Giles; C Euan Duthie; Amanda Jones, conference producer IBC UK Conferences Ltd ; Adrian Preston, London; Tessa Younger; Maria Pilar Garcia Pastor; Julie Schwartz; Zoe Cull Garland International; Ali Hanan, Jo Denbury, Debi Angel, Elle Deco;

Fiona Rintoul, London; Sheila Candeland, Manchester Metropolitan University; Julia Burrell; S Rodgers; Jane McCann; Julie Brennan, University Library Scotland; Rachel O'Neill, PR manager AOL UK; Clare Hall; Jayne Wright; Jane E Ridley; Valery R Cowan Dunfermline; Liz Saward; Sarah and Mark Butt; Andree McNamara; Adrian and Sharon Magnus; Miri Rubin, lecturer Oxford University.

Charlotte Worker, Kent; Clare McGlynn, Newcastle; Nikki Chapple; Alison Walters, London; Audrey Reimann; Jayne Roscoe, West Sussex; Ylva Player- Dahnsjoe; Nigel Platt, Surrey; Bronwen Pitt; Jacquie Hampton; Susan Antal, London; Deborah Timmermans; V R Burdon; Christina Zaba, Bristol; Kate McFarlan; Helen Moore; Doreen Boddy;

Wilma Boisnard, Nantes. Jan Owen; Felicity Harper, Clevedon; Dr Barbara Miles, retired senior partner, general practice, Bottisham, Cambridge; Dr Grahame Miles, Homerton College, Cambridge (retired senior member); Elizabeth Adams; Jo Blakey; K Ridealgh; Jan and Bob Metcalfe, Romford; Erika Watson, co-ordinator Alistair Sterling; Elaine Nielsen; E Hall; Helen McGhee.

Jinnie and Alannah Moore; Andrea Bradley, Milton Keynes; Dr Anna Wislon, chairman Royal College of General Practitioners, Wessex Faculty; Rachel White, Leamington Spa; Alicia Carroll, London; S Peter, Leamington Spa; Maureen Sterling, Kidderminster; H English, Twickenham; Lord Russell; M F Saysell, Bournemouth; G & B Lilley, Stoke-on-Trent; Carolyn Dobson, Malvern; Carol Watkins, Yeovil; Karen Wilde, London.

Jane Bryson, Northumberland; Julie Hawkins, Basingstoke; J Gregory, Birmingham; Christina Redmond, London; Harriet Kimbell, Guildford; Wendy Duthie, Hayle; Allegra Valentine, London; Ann M Jackson, Neil Jackson, Sheffield; Carol Holmes, Leeds;

Dr Joan Draper, Coventry; Sally N Mills, Haywards Heath; Sarah Jenkinson, Bristol; Anne Longfield, Kids' Club Network; Pre-School Learning Alliance; Sarah Aslan, London; Gillian Ward, Surrey; Emma Thorpe, Surrey; E E de Mattos, Tonbridge; Julia Williams, Surrey; Catherine A Hobson, Canterbury; Linda Hancock, Sevenoaks; F Husselbury, Cheshire; Hyacinth Morris; Debbie Boote, Nottingham; Yvonne Stevens; Ann Thwaite, Norfolk; Tracey Kiernan.