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Category: Childcare

Motherhood Around the World

Embed from Getty Images Image: Mother and child in Sweden, ready for winter? Joanna Goddard’s U.S. on-line journal, A Cup of Jo, has been publishing a series of articles in recent years about…

Institute of Education Research Findings:
Pre-School Childcare

Provision and use of Pre-School childcare in Britain. Key Research Findings Seminar at Institute of Education, Thomas Coram Research Unit, UCL, London. July 24th 2015 The research was undertaken with the aim of…

Brent Parent Champions

Very close to Wembley Stadium is Brent Civic Centre. It really is an impressive council building and hosts a broad array of services, with the focus clearly on community and diversity. Wembley library…

Increase in childcare entitlement from 15 – 30 hours per week.

Children and Young People Now have published the latest from the government in doubling free universal childcare entitlement. The government is to fast-track legislation to double free universal childcare entitlement to 30 hours…

Parent Champions’ Training for Family and Childcare Trust

Parent Champions’ is a volunteering project established by the Family and Childcare Trust and has become hugely successful in the last seven years.   As one of their trainers for the project I…

Alison McGovern,
new Shadow Childcare Minister

Alison McGovern has been appointed as the new shadow childcare minister. She replaces Manchester Central MP Lucy Powell, appointed to the shadow early years brief in October 2013, has led Labour’s campaigns over…

2 year olds… Are we ready?

Free Entitlement for 2 Year Olds From September 2014 the number of 2 year old children being able to access funded places increases to 40% , reaching out to those who are most…

Free childcare offer for 2 year olds

Family and Childcare Trust has released details from recent research which shows that thousands of two year olds in England may be missing out in the free entitlement to childcare. The programme to…

Happy Christmas

Child Rights Partners

‘Children and young people are to be involved in designing and delivering services aimed at them through a partnership between Unicef UK and six local authorities.’ Children and Young People Now, reported this…

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