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A new report outlines Government goals for the ten-year childcare strategy and plans for its implementation The vision

The vision

By 2010, parents and their children will have:

* a local authority that understands their childcare needs and their wider needs

* a thriving local childcare market

* easy access to information and advice about what is available

* 15 hours of free early learning and care for three- and four-year-olds, to be taken flexibly over three or more days, over a minimum of 38 weeks

* a local Sure Start Children's Centre, providing or giving easy access to family services and health and employment support

* their primary school and secondary schools offering, from 8am to 6pm for 48 weeks a year, access to childcare, out-of-school activities and parent support and quick referral to specialist health and social care services.

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