The report, by Employers for Childcare, argues that childcare in the province is behind that of England, Wales and Scotland, and recommends that it learn from their childcare strategies and build on them to create a 'robust and coherent' integrated childcare strategy of its own.
The authors say that the implementation of an up-to-date childcare strategy would also allow the Northern Ireland Executive to deliver on its statutory duty to eradicate child poverty by 2020.
Nora Smith, policy and information manager with Employers for Childcare, said, 'We are aware that childcare places and information services are so much more advanced in England, Scotland and Wales than in Northern Ireland.
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