by Emma Pinch, Liverpool Daily Post - UK
The children in Year 5 at St Elizabeth's, in Litherland, are in a lucky minority. Their teacher, Thomas Cox, is male and their teaching assistant is a man, too.
With soaring numbers of family break-ups, for some of these children these are the only adult males they'll have regular contact with.
But, despite the demand for men in early years childcare, the proportion of men to women is tiny.