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Is there sufficient childcare in your area for parents who work outside normal office hours?
Everyone Counts
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Quality childcare is good for all children and families. But it can be particularly important for disabled children and children with special educational needs. It can reduce the need for special educational needs intervention later on. Often disabled children don’t have as many opportunities to play with other children, and can feel very isolated. Like other parents, many parents of disabled children want to go out to work to raise their family income, especially as it can cost three times as much to bring up a disabled child. And sometimes families just need a break from their caring duties to spend time with the rest of their family. Quality childcare can help with all these needs. |
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The Everyone Counts project, funded by BBC Children in Need, has been
looking at the needs of families with disabled children and children
with special needs. It aims to highlight the main barriers encountered
by parents when it comes to childcare issues, and will focus on access
to childcare, costs and information about childcare.
We’ve been working with hundreds of parents with disabled children around the country, as well as childcare providers and professionals, about the realities of accessing high quality, appropriate and affordable childcare for disabled children. Many thanks to all the families and professionals who helped us with our Everyone Counts project. Without your support the project wouldn’t have been possible. Your contributions will help us campaign for better early education and care for disabled children and children with special educational needs. Parents told us that they would like to use childcare services if they could, but often there aren’t any suitable services available or they are too expensive. One single dad had called 57 registered carers to find care for his disabled daughter, and none were willing or able to provide appropriate care. Many families had no access to information about services and had to fight every step of the way to get the right services for their children. |
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So Daycare Trust is campaigning for: |
Daycare Trust also held a joint conference with the National Childminding Association in March 2005, looking at developing effective childcare support for disabled children and their families, and exploring what can be done to support everyone working in the childcare and early years sector to deliver inclusive services.
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