Angela Rayner Quotes

The government can take smart steps to give all kids the healthy start they need to reach their full potential.

We’ve got to hold our government responsible for providing the kinds of supports that parents need.

Many experts are concerned that the parents who need safe havens the most are the least likely to use them.

I'm on the MIT board, and a lot of our buildings now have daycare centers; it's becoming a standard.

I have long been a supporter of the Head Start program because each and every year I witness the dramatic positive impact that early intervention services have on children's lives in my congressional district.

What I do in my book is let people know about these programs.

We must make children and families a national priority.

There are many women with children under five who want to work and who lack affordable, high-quality child care.

I think there should be better child support laws to make it easier for those single moms to support their children so they don't have to go on welfare.

Society should see parenting as a public health issue and help parents to bring their children up feeling loved. We have birthing classes, but no parenting classes. The latter is desperately needed if we are to avoid self-destruction.

Hillary Clinton famously talked about how raising a child takes a village. Except our society isn't set up that way. We're organized in nuclear units, and a single mom can ask her friends only so many times for help picking up the kids.

Some children need help from the day they are born.

One of the best things we can do for our country, for advancing our children, is to upgrade our child care system.

Throughout my work with family and child support organizations, one thing that has stood out to me time and again is that getting early support for a child who is struggling to cope is the best possible thing we can do to help our children as they grow up.

I think police officers can work with social workers and public health nurses to do so much in terms of addressing the problem of American families, of children in American families as a whole, and giving them an opportunity to get off to a fresh start, to become self-sufficient, to lead safe, constructive lives.

Child care is very important, so I want to put dollars there, and I want to make sure we get the policies right.

Home Stability Support is our best shot at creating an all-encompassing and effective system to ensure that our at-risk children and families can remain in the homes they deserve.

It's absolutely critical that we not only provide support from cradle to career in the education system but also the wraparound services.

On the local, state and federal level, government is working alongside veteran's organizations and other stakeholders to provide services such as medical assistance, employment resources, and housing support to veterans and their dependents and survivors. But there are still gaps in services that must be rectified.

Children International is bringing a lot of hope to families who start out with nothing. They have nothing. Then Children International comes in, puts them in school, gets them what they need.

Child care should be convenient, affordable, and available in every neighborhood.

The USA won't be competitive or fair if we don't help more families give their kids the best possible start in life.

We can change the lives of autistic children. We can make a difference. There are hundreds of families in Florida who can't afford the therapists.

For eight years, I taught special-needs preschool for 18 months to 3-year-olds. It's what I was gonna do with my career for a while, and then I got a little burnt out.

I feel fortunate that my parents supported me.