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Childcare Challenge

Reaching all children and families

“…. Kids are the most important thing for our future”- Sefton parent

“ If the government could get us back to work full time it would be better for the country, so the government do have a responsibility to provide childcare”- Sefton parent

“I’m a lone parent. I’ve got four children. I’d love to go out to work but financially there’s no chance”- Sefton parent

“ What we need is an extended family of childcare”- Cornwall parent

“This place is a godsend to me. I think I would literally go mad if I had them with me in the house all the time”- Greenwich parent talking about local training with a crèche.

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About the project
The Childcare Challenge team have been working since September 2002 to highlight childcare barriers for disadvantaged families who live outside the areas that receive Government funding for childcare.

Raising voices
The project’s campaigning work is based on what parents, children and young people in Greenwich, Cornwall, Middlesbrough and Sefton told us about the difficulties they faced in getting childcare, out of school and youth club provision, during a consultation which took place between March and July 2003

‘Talking About Childcare’, the report on this consultation, was launched in May and has been widely distributed to politicians, Early Years departments, Jobcentre Plus and many of the parents who helped with the project. Download a copy of Talking About Childcare.

Postcard Campaign
Did you send a postcard to Chancellor Gordon Brown asking him to pledge to quality affordable childcare that suits you and your family?

The Childcare Challenge postcard campaign has been a great success, with thousands of cards getting back to the Treasury offices. The pledges on the postcard were taken directly from what parents told us about their childcare needs.

Childwise
Check out ‘Childwise’, Daycare Trust’s free quarterly magazine for parents. The summer 2004 edition has the Childcare Challenge as its theme and gives you advice about what you can do to have your say about childcare services.

What happens now?
Childcare is now at the top of the Government’s agenda and the parents who have given us their views have helped to put it there.
The Childcare Challenge project finishes at the end of August 2004 but the work is not over yet. You can make your voice heard as part of Daycare Trust’s continuing campaign for affordable, quality childcare for all families who want it.

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