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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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Child Wellbeing in England, Scotland and Wales: Comparisons and variations
There has been an impassioned debate about children’s wellbeing in Britain since a 2007 UNICEF report on the subject put the UK at the bottom of a list of 21 rich countries. In our report, we use data from the 2005 Families and Children Study (FACS) to look at England, Scotland and Wales, and compare income and wellbeing indicators in all three countries.
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