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Publications

• Parent publications

  • A guide for disabled parents: Choosing and paying for childcare
    A guide to help disabled parents and their children benefit from high-quality childcare.
  • A guide to childcare for disabled children
    Choosing the right childcare can be a difficult decision for every parent, but can be particularly challenging if your child has a disability or special educational need.
  • Easy read childcare booklet
    An easy-to-read guide to childcare.
  • The benefits of high-quality childcare
    Childcare benefits all of us: parents, carers, employers, communities and most importantly, children. Improving local childcare services provides real advantages for everyone in the community.

• Policy publications

  • Childcare and the recession
    This is the third briefing paper in Daycare Trust's policy insight series, Childcare and the recession looks at a range of policy issues on early childhood education and care.
  • Childcare futures
    The second paper in Daycare Trust's policy insight series, Childcare Futures was launched at our annual conference on 25 November 2008.
  • Raising the bar
    Raising the bar is the first briefing paper in a new series by Daycare Trust looking at a range of policy issues related to childcare and early years education. This paper focuses on the early childhood education and care (ECEC) workforce and has been funded and supported by the TUC.

• Research publications

  • 2012 London childcare report
    Daycare Trust’s ‘2012 London childcare report’ gives an in-depth analysis of the childcare picture in London.
  • Childcare Advance: scoping the need for help with up-front costs
    The Childcare Advance project investigated the help currently available to families when faced with up-front childcare costs, the extent to which parents experience difficulty meeting these costs and models potential options for a sustainable scheme offering financial help to parents with these costs.
  • Childcare costs survey 2010
    Our ninth survey explores the issues of cost and availability of childcare in Britain, sponsored by Imagine Co-operative Childcare.
  • Childcare Costs Survey 2011
    Our tenth survey explores the issues of cost and availability of childcare in Britain.
  • Childcare costs survey 2012
    Annual Childcare costs survey 2012 sponsored by Computershare Voucher Services show that spiralling nursery costs add to parents’ financial woes.
  • Childcare for adult learners
    This briefing paper highlights the problems with funding support for childcare for adults in further education and examines the main sources of funding help with childcare available to student parents aged 20+ across the UK. In particular, it calls for reforms to the Learner Support Fund, the discretionary grant that is the main source of financial help for English student parents who need childcare.
  • Childcare for Parents with Atypical Work Patterns: The need for flexibility
    This report highlights the childcare struggles experienced by parents with atypical work patterns.
  • Ensuring Equality - black and minority ethnic families' views on childcare
    Looks at the views and experiences of black and minority ethnic families and brought together qualitative and quantitative research.
  • Ensuring Equality in childcare for black and minority ethnic families: a summary
    This paper provides an overview of the work and findings of the whole Ensuring Equality project and highlights some of the challenges facing BME communities in accessing formal childcare services, and some of the approaches that are being taken to address these challenges.
  • Ensuring equality in childcare series (set of 5)
    Buy 'Ensuring equality: the black and minority ethnic childcare workforce', 'Local approaches to ensuring childcare for black and minority ethnic families', 'Ensuring equality: black and minority ethnic families’ views on childcare', Listening to black and minority ethnic parents' and 'Ensuring equality in childcare for black and minority ethnic families - summary' together and save £3 on the normal price.
  • Ensuring Equality: The black and minority ethnic childcare workforce
    The report provides some interesting insights into how childcare workers address different ethnic and cultural needs in childcare settings and their views on the importance of having an ethnically diverse childcare workforce.
  • Help with childcare costs
    This guide for professionals outlines the support available to all parents.
  • Holiday childcare costs survey 2009
    Our eighth survey explores the issues of cost and availability of holiday childcare in Britain, sponsored by Imagine Co-operative Childcare
  • Holiday childcare costs survey 2010
    This research uncovers the postcode lottery and patchwork of childcare availability. The findings of this year's Holiday Childcare Costs survey show a huge gap in childcare provision, with only 20 per cent of local authority Family Information Services (FIS) able to state that they have sufficient holiday childcare in place to meet parental need.
  • Holiday Childcare Costs Survey 2011
    Daycare Trust’s tenth annual Holiday Childcare Costs Survey, sponsored by Computershare Voucher Services (CVS), is compiled from figures submitted by local authorities in England, Scotland and Wales.
  • Holiday childcare costs survey 2012
    Our 11th Holiday costs survey explores the issues of cost and availability of holiday childcare in Britain, sponsored by Computershare Voucher Services.
  • Improving Our Understanding of Informal Childcare in the UK
    This report presents the main findings of Daycare Trust's research on informal childcare.
  • Improving Quality in Early Years Education and Care: a comparison of perspectives and measures
    This research study compares different quality measures used in England to identify and improve the quality of early years provision.
  • Informal Childcare: Choice or Chance?
    This literature review provides a comprehensive background to informal childcare.
  • Informal Childcare: Choice or Chance? Project Summary Report
    This is a short summary of the findings from our research on informal childcare.
    
  • Listening to black and minority ethnic parents about childcare
    This report explores the findings from eight focus groups conducted with parents from different black and minority ethnic groups, asking them about their use of, views on, and needs for childcare.
  • Listening to children about childcare
    Presents the findings from a series of interviews and focus groups with children about what they think about childcare. In the focus groups we explored with children their own experiences of childcare, their likes and dislikes, as well as their views on childcare more generally and what it means for children today.
  • Listening to families series (set of 3)
    Buy 'Listening to black and minority ethnic parents', 'Listening to lone parents', and 'Listening to parents of disabled children' together and get a £5 discount on the normal cost.
  • Listening to grandparents
    Drawing on new Daycare Trust research, this report highlights the importance of grandparent care to families
  • Listening to lone parents about childcare
    Presents the findings from a series of focus groups conducted by Daycare Trust as part of the Listening to families project.
  • Listening to parents of disabled children about childcare
    This report explores the findings from focus groups conducted with parents of children with disabilities and special educational needs around London, asking them about their use of, views on, and needs for childcare.
  • Local approaches to ensuring childcare for black and minority ethnic families
    This report examines what is being done at a local level to monitor ethnicity within childcare settings and how this data is being used to increase the take-up of childcare by BME families.
  • Making a bold statement
    Daycare Trust is now able to provide practical tips and helpful hints to childcare providers that will enable them to become more inclusive of children with disabilities.
  • Quality costs: paying for early childhood education and care
    The final report of the Quality costs project, which brings together the one-year research project and summarises the information from the five working papers.
    The report is accompanied by five working papers.
  • The Scottish Childcare Lottery
    This report highlights the high cost of childcare in Scotland and shows that parents are facing a childcare lottery in terms of both cost and accessibility.
  • Young Babysitters in Britain
    This report focuses on informal childcare offered by young people.

• Publications archive

  • Beyond caring: The case for reforming the childcare and early years workforce
    This paper covers four areas: who are the workforce; gender and the workforce; is there an emerging crisis of care; and what might be done in response to the crisis. The underlying argument is that the workforce - both its structure and conditions - has been neglected for decades.
  • Building on sand
    Professor Hilary Land questions the Government’s reliance on the market to deliver childcare for all families, highlighting lessons from private social care for older people.
  • Child benefits: The importance of investing in quality childcare
    The quality of childcare matters because it affects the everyday experiences of children and their long-term development. The quality of childcare or differences in children’s experiences in different settings may have developmental consequences, and may explain whether childcare or pre-school experiences are beneficial.
  • Children’s Centres: exploring the costs and delivery of a national scheme
    This report has sought to take the first step towards describing and costing a national scheme for children’s centres.
  • Costs and benefits of universal childcare: A preliminary economic analysis for the UK
    The UK Government has made significant additional investments in pre-school education and childcare since 1997, with further increases planned over the period to 2005/6. Building on this strategy, is there a case in the longer term for moving to Scandinavian-style universal pre-school childcare provision?
  • Meeting the child poverty challenge: why universal childcare is key to ending child poverty
    The Government’s commitment to reversing the rise of child poverty since 1979
    and to abolishing it completely in 20 years is one of the most important it
    has made. This paper examines the crucial part the National Childcare Strategy must play in meeting this commitment.
  • Men’s work? Changing the gender mix of the childcare and early years workforce
    This paper loks at research on fathers and their relation to childcare and considers four broader issues: gender equality, the labour market, the needs of the children, and child protection. It also provides views and experiences of childcare workers themselves – both men and women – and of parents and considers the policy options and ways to move the agenda forward.
  • The UK at the crossroads: towards an early years European partnership
    Early childhood services in the UK (that is services providing care and education
    for children below compulsory school age) are at a critical point. A momentum for
    change has built up, but we need more thought and clarity about where we want
    to go and how to get there.
  • Women, child poverty and childcare making the links
    The purpose of this paper is to place the challenge of reducing child poverty in a broader context than has been the case in recent years and to show that even more inclusive policies than those proposed in this latest Report are needed if all children are to be taken out of poverty.

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