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Nursery World, 16 April 2008

Childcare practitioners are aware that minority ethnic families don't take up the services of children's centres as much as they could, and have views on how to encourage them, says Annette Rawstrone.

The problem of black and minority ethnic (BME) families not accessing children's centres could be addressed by employing a more ethnically diverse workforce, according to research conducted by Daycare Trust. While children's centres serve families very effectively once they are attending, a recent Ofsted report, How well are they doing?:The impact of children's centres and extended schools, found that they are not always 'sufficiently active in reaching out...

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