Childcare project targets poverty

The Daycare Trust has launched a project to help increase the availability of provision for families living in poverty in England. The two-year Childcare Challenge project, which has received support from the Community Fund, will work with agencies in Cornwall, Greenwich, Middlesbrough and Sefton. It will target families on low incomes outside the areas designated as among the 20 per cent most disadvantaged in England, where most funding is currently directed. Almost two-thirds of children in poverty do not live in these areas.