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.
The Childcare Challenge project will co-ordinate local events for parents, carers and children which will give them opportunities to have a say on how best to provide high quality, affordable childcare in pockets of deprivation. It will also generate two research reports on problems with childcare availability in England to inform Government policy and a range of materials to disseminate the project's findings. A major national conference on 11 November this year will present the findings.
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