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'Give 20 hours in free places'
By Melanie Defries,
Nursery World,
2 August 2007
More free early years places and longer parental leave are among the measures called for by the Daycare Trust in an agenda to mark its 21st anniversary this week.
'What parents want - a 21-point plan for better childcare' recommends extending free childcare places for all three- and four-year-olds to at least 20 hours a week for 48 weeks in the year, and extending parental leave to 24 months. Alison Garnham, Daycare Trust joint chief executive, said, 'We've come a long way from the childcare desert of the 1980s, with a huge expansion of childcare places, free places for three- and four-year-olds and a range of...
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