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Childcare Survey 2021
In its 21st annual Childcare Survey, Coram Family and Childcare reveal that prices have risen above inflation once again, with a part time nursery place (25 hours) for a child under two costing 4 per cent more than it did a year ago at £138.00 per week, or over £7,000 per year. For a child aged two, it now costs 5 per cent more. We are concerned that this increase could put more pressure on families after a tough year of uncertainty and additional financial strain.
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Fathers Consultation with Small Steps Big Changes
Coram Family and Childcare were commissioned by Small Steps Big Changes to consult with local fathers about their wants, needs and experiences of local family services. Small Steps Big Changes is a 10 year programme funded by the National Lottery Community Fund’s A Better Start programme, working to improve outcomes for young children in four wards in Nottingham. One of their priorities is embedding father inclusive practice.
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Childcare Survey 2020
In its 20th annual Childcare Survey, Coram Family and Childcare reveal that the average price for 25 hours of nursery childcare for a child under two has risen by 5 per cent to £6,800 per year.
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Loneliness among parents of young children
Coram Family and Childcare are running a project, funded by the National Lottery Reaching Communities programme, which will support eight groups of local parents to work together to combat loneliness while their children are young. To guide their work, we conducted research on how parents with children under five experience loneliness, and what would help them to overcome it.
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What influences mothers’ decisions about working after having a baby?
We know that employment rates of mothers in the UK are much lower than those of fathers or women without dependent children. For some women, this difference is down to personal choice, but difficulties in finding affordable childcare or making work pay may also be affecting the decisions women make about returning to work.
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Holiday Childcare Survey 2019
This report is our 15th into childcare prices in the UK, showing the disparities between different regions, as well as problems that parents face with not only price, but availability of childcare.
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Childcare Survey 2019
In its 19th annual Childcare Survey, Coram Family and Childcare reveal that the average price for 25 hours of nursery childcare for a child under two has risen by 3 per cent to £6,600 per year.
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School age childcare in London
Coram Family and Childcare's report School age childcare in London covers the results of a major new study exploring the often overlooked market for childcare for children aged five and over. There are more than a million children aged 5 to 15 in London for whom childcare can provide a space to play, learn and socialise, and whose parents are likely to rely on childcare to be able to work.
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Holding on or moving up? Supporting carers and parents in employment
There are nine million working parents in the UK, and two million balancing paid work with caring for an adult. Adjustments to working arrangements – for example, changing working hours or taking temporary leave from work – can prevent this group from dropping out of employment altogether.
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Improving information on childcare for children with SEND
In the spring and summer of 2018, NAFIS delivered a project to support local authorities to improve their information provision on childcare for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). We designed a self-assessment tool for local authorities so that they could identify opportunities for improvement in their practice and ran two workshops with local authority staff and parents to build on this self-assessment through peer review and user feedback.
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