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Research by Coram Family and Childcare
Our research and advocacy focuses on making the UK a better place for families, and on holding government to account for doing all it can to remove barriers for families.
Childcare Survey and Holiday Childcare Survey
Our annual Childcare Survey and Holiday Childcare Survey are the definitive reports on childcare costs and availability in the UK.
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Tackling disadvantage through childcare
This report outlines our proposal for a new childcare system that better meets families’ needs...
Childcare Survey 2023 Panel Event
This webinar provides an opportunity to hear the findings from the Childcare Survey 2023 and...
Childcare Survey 2023
In its 22nd annual survey, Coram Family and Childcare finds that childcare costs continue to...
Holiday Childcare Survey 2022
In its 17th survey, Coram Family and Childcare finds that holiday childcare costs have jumped...
Covid and Childcare Launch Event
This event will celebrate the publication of the final report of the Nuffield-funded Covid and...
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Response to the childcare announcements in the Chancellor's Budget
15/03/2023
In response to the Chancellor's announcements on childcare in today's Budget, Megan...
Childcare shortages across the country, with the most disadvantaged children missing out
9 March
Britain’s parents are paying 5% more for childcare for the under-twos than they were one year...
New survey reveals how cost of living crisis is hitting childcare sector - 72% of local authorities have seen providers in their areas increase prices and 48% have seen staff numbers reduced
30 Jan 2023
New survey reveals how cost of living crisis is hitting childcare sector - 72% of local...
Chancellor urged to use the budget to help parents hit by rising childcare costs and a sharp drop in availability of places
26 February
Britain’s parents are paying 5% more for childcare for the under-twos than they were one year...
Concern for inequality gap has increased as children from ethnic minority and disadvantaged backgrounds miss out
20 June 2022
Implications of COVID for Early Childhood Education and Care in England, found that the number...
Chancellor urged to use the budget to help parents hit by rising childcare costs and a sharp drop in availability of places
26 February
Britain’s parents are paying 5% more for childcare for the under-twos than they were one year...
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