'Stop targeting poorest areas'

Simon Vevers
Wednesday, May 12, 2004

Government measures to support childcare should be extended to poor children who live outside disadvantaged areas, says the Daycare Trust. In a report, Talking about childcare, published last week, the Trust called for initiatives to reach the 46 per cent of children who live in poverty outside the 20 per cent most disadvantaged areas of England. It said that it wanted to see a shift away from targeting areas of disadvantage exclusively and that this could be realised through the development of children's centres in every community.