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Policy and research

On this page you will find policy and research of interest to London childcare professionals.

London childcare providers survey
London childcare - facts and figures
Consultation responses

London childcare providers survey - 2012

Providers, we need your views - have your say in London election year!

● Help us influence London childcare policy
● Help us plan support to you

Following on from the success of our first three London childcare providers surveys, we are asking you to respond to our 2012 survey.  Answering the 5 compulsory questions will only take 5 minutes - though obviously the more you answer the more powerful your voice!

Respond to the survey here - most questions are tick-box

Deadline for responses - Monday 30 April 2012

Last year's results were covered in the Evening Standard, Nursery World, Children and Young People Now, The Guardian and on local radio.  They were also presented at our 2011 London childcare providers forum attended by Sarah Teather, Minister of State for Children and Families.  This year's results will be presented at our annual London childcare providers forum on Thursday 24 May - you can already register for the event here.

Previous surveys

London childcare - facts and figures 

• 1,455,600 children aged 0-15 years live in London (Key Population and Vital Statistics 2007, Office for National Statistics, April 2009).
• In London, parents pay an average £5,668 a year (for a nursery place for a child under 2 years old for 25 hours per week, Childcare Costs Survey 2010, Daycare Trust).
• 53,800 families in London are claiming childcare element of Working Tax Credit.
• The average weekly award for childcare element is £95.16, the highest amount of all the regions and considerably higher than the average amount claimed in England (£69.76).
• London take-up rate of tax credits in 2007-08 was 76 per cent in London with an estimated 210,000 potential recipients not claiming their entitlement.
• London has 16,903 registered childcare providers offering 202,494 childcare places (March 2010). 
• 3,365 2-year olds in London used their Free Early Education Entitlement (FEEE) place in January-March 2010 (Department for Education, July 2010).

Consultation responses

London Assembly review into childcare - 2011/12

Daycare Trust submitted both oral and written evidence to the London Assembly Health & Public Services Committee Review into access to childcare for Londoners, in addition to helping disseminate a London Assembly providers survey.  Their report, titled 'Tackling childcare affordability in London', was published in February 2012, and included a number of excellent recommendations to all levels of government, and stated "The Committee has therefore concluded that tackling barriers to affordable childcare should become part of the Mayor’s programme of work."  Daycare Trust also press released a response.

Code of Practice on provision of the free entitlement for 3 and 4 year olds - January 2010

Read the London childcare providers network response to the Department of Children, Schools and Families consultation on the draft Code of Practice on provision of the free entitlement for 3- and 4-year olds.

You can see a complete list of consultation responses completed by Daycare Trust here.

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