Childcare Champions for work

Six inspirational childcare campaigners were named Childcare Champions for work in their local community at the first-ever awards reception hosted by chancellor of the exchequer Gordon Brown at 11 Downing Street last week during National Childcare Week. The winners were Sophie Ugle, whose work for childcare for disabled children means that a specialist holiday playscheme will run in Kingston for the first time this summer; parents Joanne Rankin, Victoria Daley and Marie Hayward, who started Bright Sparks in Andover, Hampshire, to set up inclusive playschemes for children with ADHD; Derek Hays from Hartlepool, who set up a fathers' group and...