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Parent Champions Conference and Awards 2025
We are hugely passionate about the Parent Champions programme, and we appreciate how much you all do for your communities. It is wonderful to bring all the schemes together for the conference and to celebrate your achievements. Through your work, we all know how important creating a supportive community is to families and we are very proud to support such an amazing group of Coordinators and Volunteers.
Parent Champions Awards 2025 – Meet Sarah, Best Newcomer
The annual Parent Champions Awards recognise and celebrate the work of Parent Champions volunteers and coordinators. Coram Family and Childcare’s 41 Parent Champion schemes reach almost 50,000 families a year (2023/24). Thanks to the amazing work of more than 350 Parent Champions volunteers, parents and carers are supported by their peers in their own communities.
How Parent Champions in Islington have reached families across the community
“It takes a village”. The annual Parent Champions Awards recognise and celebrate the work of Parent Champions volunteers and coordinators.
Childcare entitlement expansion sees childcare costs for under-threes in England more than halve, whilst prices in Scotland and Wales continue to rise
Working parents of children under three in England now pay less than half of last year’s cost for a part-time nursery place according to the first annual childcare survey to be published since the government roll-out of childcare support began in April 2024.
Making a difference: from volunteering to employment
Parent Champions are parent volunteers who give a few hours a week to talk to other parents about the local services available to families. They help families in their local area, including isolated or marginalised families, to find out about childcare and services available.
The Exciting Story Of Books Together
As National Storytelling Week 2025 begins we are excited to share the story of the first year of our ‘Books Together’ programme.
NAFIS Conference and Awards 2024
Welcoming the new NAFIS Co-chair
Coram Family and Childcare is delighted to announce the recent appointment of Maryam Makki from Reading Borough Council as the new Co-Chair for NAFIS.
New research reveals barriers to take-up of early education entitlements for disadvantaged children
A range of barriers are preventing disadvantaged children in England from taking up their entitlement to 15 hours of funded early education, but national and local action could change this.
Families facing holiday childcare costs of up to £1,000 this summer, whilst shortages continue to grow
Holiday childcare costs in Great Britain have risen by 6% since last summer, with working parents now facing an average bill of £175 per child per week – over £1,000 for the six-week break – according to Coram Family and Childcare’s 19th annual Holiday Childcare Survey, published today. The report also reveals growing shortages of holiday childcare, with drops across all categories of provision in England over the last year.*