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Tag: Family and Childcare Trust

An Equal Start in Life – Finland’s Baby Box

One of the most beautiful things we have seen is the Baby Box for all newborns in Finland. ‘I started life in a box, we all did!’ said a colleague, who was proud…

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…

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…

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…