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Over the decades she founded several L.A. institutions including the cooperative daycare Echo Park Silverlake People’s Child Care Center, which was immortalized in the Emmy-winning short documentary “Power to the Playgroup,” and the Teen and Parent Child Care Program at the Los Angeles Technology Center.

At a playgroup hosted in a City Terrace backyard, humans — fosters, adopters and others — crowd into thin slices of shade along the garage to beat the afternoon heat, fondly watching dogs delight in chasing and being chased.

Over the decades she founded several L.A. institutions including the cooperative daycare Echo Park Silverlake People’s Child Care Center that was immortalized in the Emmy-winning short documentary “Power to the Playgroup” and the Teen and Parent Child Care Program at the Los Angeles Technology Center.

More and more children at Rebecca Stewart's east London playgroup are using asthma inhalers, she says.

Coral Jeffery says she has developed asthma in the past six years and her daughter, Ms Stewart, who runs the playgroup, has noticed children's health deteriorating.