Striking out

Membership organisations representing different childcarers are becoming big players by opening up their own nurseries and family centres, as Mary Evans reports Heads would turn if a football team rose from scratch in one season to take a place in the premier league. But in the childcare sector such a goal is comfortably in the sights of the Pre-School Learning Alliance. In little more than a year, the educational charity, which represents and supports 16,000 pre-schools in England,...