Out-of-hours care needs go unfilled

By James Tweed, Nursery World, 25 June 2003

Growing demand by parents for childcare outside traditonal weekday 'nine to five' hours is not being met by care providers, claims a report for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation....

Growing demand by parents for childcare outside traditonal weekday 'nine to five' hours is not being met by care providers, claims a report for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. The report, Around the clock: Childcare services at atypical times, by Ann Mooney and June Statham at the Thomas Coram Research Unit, found that childcare services are generally failing to follow parents who have to work weekends or on shifts as Britain moves to...

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