The government has promised that there will be free places available in pre-school classes for all four-year-olds and two thirds of three-year-olds by 2002.
The survey, of 1, 330 diabetics, found over half said pain was a issue when testing, particularly for 21-35-year-olds, two-thirds of whom said it was a problem.
Lawrence Lee, the former solicitor for Jon Venables, one of two 10-year-olds who murdered two-year-old James Bulger in 1993, said the statistics were "very worrying".
