Families use more registered childcare

More parents than ever in England are using formal childcare to look after their children during the week, according to research by the National Centre for Social Research (NCSR), launched to coincide with National Childcare Month. The report, Repeat Study of Parents' Demand for Childcare, carried out on behalf of the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) between February and July 2001, has found that 4.5 million families (86 per cent) with children aged nought to 14 used some form of childcare in the past year. Childcare was more likely to be of an informal nature, with just under three-quarters...