The launch of the childcare history map is the culmination of the Grow Your Own childcare oral history project.
As the Women’s liberation movement took off in the early 1970s, parents, carers and childcare workers joined forces to set up the childcare they needed as women increasingly wanted or needed to work and study, alongside a growing interest in the benefits of nursery care for children.
The map showcases almost 200 ‘collective’ childcare projects, campaigns for childcare, childcare workers organising for better pay and conditions and people coming together to combat racism and the exclusion of disabled children in the early years.
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