Parents’ Forum at Granard Children’s Centre in Wandsworth Daycare Trust has been exploring the range of volunteering opportunities and parent participation initiatives being managed by local authorities and Children’s Centres in England. The…
Category: Early Years
The Daycare Trust and the Family and Parenting Institute are to merge under a new name from next year, the charities have announced. (Image courtesy of Daycare Trust) This is exciting news for…
Children’s Centres and Volunteering is just the start… (Image courtesy of Pleasent Valley Children’s Centre) What better way is there for parents to get involved in their local Children’s Centre than through volunteering…
Daycare Trust’s National childcare week is now in it’s 15th year and runs from 2nd July – 9th July, 2012. This is a good time to celebrate with Daycare Trust on achievements…
We have recently enjoyed being commissioned by Hornsey Road Children’s Centre in Islington to supply and fit their new IT suite and display screens. The Team at Family Action were successful in raising…
An interesting report from The Social Market Foundation explores a new way to support the affordability of formal childcare for working parents. It is based on a similar approach to the student loans…
Nothing new in the fact that childcare is hard to afford and the cost remains one of the biggest barriers to accessing high quality early years education. The good news is the extension…
Some startling figures emerging about Children’s Centre closures… In November the government confirmed that 124 Sure Start centres had closed, (Children and Young People Now). In addition, there is…
Childcare policy and the wider role of the community was the focus of the Daycare Trust annual conference in London on 22 November. A subject one would expect to have been well and…
25th Anniversary Lecture Daycare Trust “Don’t blame families, support them and help them to achieve better outcomes.” Sir James Heckman By special invitation from Daycare Trust, the leading economist and Nobel Prize winner,…