Analysis: Childcare and early years survey - Showing the way to go

Nursery World, 11 June 2008

The latest survey of parents taking up childcare provides plenty of deeper explanations for what families want and need, says Eva Lloyd.

Judging from the press coverage following the publication of the 2007 Childcare and Early Years Survey undertaken by the National Centre for Social Research for the DCSF, you might have thought that the Ten-Year Strategy for Childcare launched in 2004 had failed entirely. Now that the dust has settled, it is important to take a longer-term view of the lessons for the future offered here. Even though the overall picture remains largely unchanged since 2004, on closer inspection...

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