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Parent’s Participation Research at Daycare Trust

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…

A Quiet Revolution

What happens in communities when funding for projects is cut back? When plans and development for new centres no longer happens and the traditional means of support is withdrawn, what is the real…

Daycare Trust and Family Parenting Institute to form one new organisation

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…

National Childcare Week

  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…

Daycare Trust Conference
November 2011

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…

Daycare Trust’s 25th Anniversary Birthday Bash – 23 June 2011

The Birthday Bash took place in the State Rooms at Speakers House, with kind permission of the Speaker of the House of Commons, Rt Hon John Bercow MP. He welcomed the trust, with…

Creating a more equal and productive Britain

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,…

Daycare Trust Annual Conference 16th November 2010

First Steps to next steps: securing the future of childcare? A lively and interesting day at the annual Daycare Trust Conference held at One Great George St, in the heart of Westminster, London….

National Childcare Week 2010

What I want to be……… Daycare Trust are asking children and young people of all ages to join them to celebrate National Childcare Week 12th – 16 th July. The art competition is…