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Childcare Survey 2011
Each year Family and Childcare Trust conducts a survey of local authority Family Information Services (FIS) to find out about childcare costs in Britain. This year's survey found significant increases in the cost of all forms of childcare. Average nursery costs increased in England and Scotland.
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Families in an Age of Austerity – How tax and benefit reform will affect UK families
Families with children are particularly susceptible to the impact of recent changes in welfare, tax and benefit reform because of their high degree of reliance on state financial support. This paper explores how tax and benefit changes will affect UK families, and outlines how the many and complex changes announced in the Emergency Budget and Comprehensive Spending review will impact on family finances in the years to come.
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Holiday Childcare Survey 2010
Each year the Daycare Trust conducts a survey of Family Information Services in England and Wales and Childcare Information Services in Scotland to find out about the cost and availability of holiday childcare. This year's survey found the sufficiency of holiday childcare in England (by which we mean the amount of childcare available, compared with the amount that parents need) fell slightly in the past year but increased in Wales. Both England and Wales suffer from a severe paucity of suitable holiday childcare for children aged 12 and over.
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Childcare Survey 2010
Each year Family and Childcare Trust conducts a survey of local authority Family Information Services (FIS) to find out about childcare costs in Britain.This year’s survey has found that nursery costs have continued to rise significantly throughout Great Britain. Childminder costs have also increased across Britain in the past twelve months.
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Can government measure family wellbeing? A literature review
A wide-ranging examination of international research and other literature that analyses current definitions, theoretical models and measurement tools, and examines quality issues such as validity and transferability, as well as the conceptual and practical challenges of measuring family wellbeing.
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Family Trends: British families since the 1950s
Family Trends (2010) charts the dramatic changes in UK family life over the past four decades – and anticipates further radical shifts in these roles in the decade ahead. This title predicts that fathers' lives are set to alter over the next decade. Shifting attitudes among fathers, mothers' increased engagement in the labour market and impacts of the UK’s economic downturn suggest that the time fathers spend with their children will continue to increase.
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Holiday Childcare Survey 2009
Each year the Daycare Trust conducts a survey of Family Information Services in England and Wales and Childcare Information Services in Scotland to find out about the cost and availability of holiday childcare. This year’s survey found that the sufficiency of holiday childcare is improving slowly in England, but there are still serious concerns about sufficiency of holiday provision overall.
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Childcare Survey 2009
Each year Family and Childcare Trust conducts a survey of local authority Family Information Services (FIS) to find out about childcare costs in Britain. This year’s survey shows that nursery costs continue to rise in England, Scotland and Wales, whilst childminder costs have increased in England and Scotland but remained roughly static in Wales.
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Holiday Childcare Survey 2008
Each year the Daycare Trust conducts a survey of Family Information Services in England and Wales and Childcare Information Services in Scotland to find out about the cost and availability of holiday childcare. This year’s survey shows considerable cost increases in almost all parts of Britain – in particular England, but with costs in all three nations rising ahead of inflation.
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Childcare Survey 2008
Each year the Daycare Trust conducts a survey of local authority Family Information Services (FIS) to find out about childcare costs in Britain. The 2008 childcare costs survey shows that parents continue to face increasingly high costs for nurseries, childminders and out of school clubs.
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