Daycare Trust
Daycare Trust is the national childcare charity. They have been working since November 1986 to promote high quality affordable childcare for all. Their campaigning work continues to focus on childcare affordability, listening to parents and keeping children at the centre. Daycare Trust is the national childcare charity, campaigning for quality, accessible, affordable childcare for all and raising the voices of children, parents and carers. They advise parents and carers, providers, employers, trade unions and policymakers on childcare issues.
Despite the advances in recent years, particularly with the National Childcare Strategy, there remains a considerable way to go before this is achieved. By childcare they mean arrangements parents make for their children when they are not looking after the children themselves; this could be in individual or group care in a variety of settings, including at home. Schools become increasingly important as nursery schools link to reception classes and extended schools provide a variety of services for families, including childcare for older children. Childrens centres would link to childminding networks and other home-based and community-based childcare. Daycare Trusts objective is to secure access to high quality affordable childcare for all children in Great Britain where and when they and their parents want and need it, at a price their parents can afford.
For more information, please visit http://www.daycaretrust.org.uk