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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.
Covid and childcare
Implications of COVID for Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) in England
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Putting quality at the heart of the early years
This report identifies opportunities for families to access high quality early education and...
Unfinished business: where next for extended schools?
Mapping the current provision and funding mechanisms for extended schools, and comparing this...
No shortcuts: quality and the free childcare extension
This report focuses on the potential changes to quality of provision resulting from the 30...
Creating an anti-poverty childcare system
This paper focuses on the impact of high-quality early education and early intervention which...
Driving high quality childcare: the role of local authorities
This report seeks to show how local authorities in England influence the quality of early...
In for a pound: The relationship between staff wages and Ofsted grades in group-based childcare provision
Early years settings graded ‘outstanding’ by Ofsted paid non-supervisory staff an average of £...
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Childcare costs surge at over double the rate of inflation
26 February
Britain’s parents are paying 5% more for childcare for the under-twos than they were one year...
London families now face annual childcare bill of £8,600
26 February 2020
Parents in London now pay an average of £165.47 per week, or £8,600 per year, for a part-time...
Scottish families face rising childcare costs, with annual bill of almost £5,800
26 February 2020
Scottish parents are paying 2% more for childcare for the under-twos than they were one year...
Over half of parents with young children feel lonely, with those on lowest incomes twice as likely to be affected
27 November 2019
New research published today by Coram Family and Childcare has found that over half (56%) of...
Rapid rise in Welsh holiday childcare prices leaves parents hot and bothered
18 July 2018
Holiday childcare costs have risen by four per cent in Wales since last summer, bringing the...
Scottish families facing holiday childcare bill of over £700 – more than double the cost of term time childcare
16 July 2019
Holiday childcare costs have risen by one per cent in Scotland since last summer, bringing the...
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