Jill Rutter 

Jill Rutter is a Policy and Research Officer at Daycare Trust. She joined the organisation in November 2010 and is leading Daycare Trust's Big Lottery funded research project on informal childcare.

Prior to joining Daycare Trust, Jill was a Senior Research Fellow in Migration and Equalities at the Institute for Public Policy Research. She has also lectured in education and from 1988-2001 she was a Policy Advisor at the Refugee Council in London. She has also worked as a secondary school teacher and on development projects in India. Jill has published over 80 books, articles and reports, mostly on child migration, including Refugee Children in the UK (Open University Press, 2006).

Jill can be contacted on jrutter@daycaretrust.org.uk or on 0207 940 7526.

Ben Evans 

Ben Evans is a Research Officer at Daycare Trust, on secondment from London South Bank University. Since joining the organisation in January 2010, Ben has contributed to the design and analysis of a number of qualitative and quantitative research projects including the Childcare Costs and Sufficiency Survey series, London Childcare Providers Network Survey and the Big Lottery funded project on informal childcare.

Ben holds a Masters, with Distinction, in Social Research Methods from the University of Liverpool and is currently studying for a diploma in management with the Chartered Management Institute.

Ben can be contacted at bevans@daycaretrust.org.uk or on 020 7940 7524            

Rosanna Singler  

Rosanna Singler is a Policy and Research Officer at Daycare Trust. She joined the organisation in September 2010 and is leading Daycare Trust's research project on childcare for parents working atypical hours.

She has considerable knowledge of the UK child poverty agenda, and has worked with central and local government to help develop effective child poverty strategies, including the delivery of a project for central government to increase quality part-time working opportunities for parents in London.

Rosanna can be contacted at rsingler@daycaretrust.org.uk or on 020 7940 7523.