The country’s social welfare and Early Childhood Development sectors are teetering on a precipice. But, instead of throwing out a lifeline, government is being accused of pushing them over the edge. Michael Avery speaks to Children’s rights activist Robyn Wolfson Vorster, & Prof Eric Atmore, director for the Centre of Early Childhood Development, which is a national resource providing training, support and advice in the field of early childhood development, about the crisis brewing in early childhood development centres across the country.