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Strategy fails to change take-up
By Catherine Gaunt,
Nursery World,
4 June 2008
The Ten-Year Childcare Strategy has failed to make any real impact on the number of parents using registered childcare, research carried out for the DCSF has found.
More families are turning to grandparents and using informal childcare than nurseries and childminders, according to the survey by the National Centre for Social Research, which surveyed more than 7,000 parents of nought to 14-year-olds about their use of childcare in the past year. The rise in the use of formal childcare, identified in the previous survey from 2004, has not continued. But take-up of formal childcare was highest among three- and four-year-olds,...
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