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Analysis: Poorest childcare provision is in deprived areas
Nursery World,
8 October 2008
The paradox of areas that need quality childcare the most having it in the least measure looks far from being solved. Simon Vevers asks why.
Children and families living in areas already experiencing relative deprivation face further inequity because they have less access to high-quality provision.' Given that the Government's ten-year childcare strategy placed a major emphasis on developing good-quality care in these areas to enable parents to find work or training, this assessment in the recent Ofsted review appears damning. The report found that only 53 per cent of childminders in deprived areas provide 'good or better' childcare, compared...
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