How many children aged under three should childminders and nursery staff be allowed to look after at the same time?
A relaxation in the number of pre-school children that nurseries and registered childminders can oversee has been announced in order to professionalise the pre-school workforce and cut the cost of childcare in England.
Daycare Trust maintain a high profile through our policy work. We provide informed comment on key childcare issues to the media and government, ensuring that the benefits of childcare and the issues faced by parents are well understood.
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We conduct independent and robust research on behalf of a number of government departments, charities and research councils.
We are renowned for our research, which is central to our campaigning for local, affordable and high quality childcare for all. Our research brings together parents, childcare providers and policy makers, as we develop policy to offer real choices to families to balance work and family life.
Recent successes include ‘Quality Costs', a piece of ground-breaking research defining high quality childcare, and setting out how much it will cost to fund its roll-out across England. We are currently undertaking research into the use of informal childcare, a project funded by the Big Lottery Fund.
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We run ongoing campaigns on childcare issues. We are campaigning against cuts to Sure Start Children's Centres which are currently taking place across the country.
The new name for Daycare Trust and the Family and Parenting Institute.
Report reveals childcare is the luxury that families have to afford as figures show that nursery, childminder and after-school club costs are all rising at more than double the rate of inflation.
The two charities merged on 1 January 2013 and the new charity will be launched in April 2013.
A review of Daycare Trust's achievements in 2012
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