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Fitting it all together - how families arrange their childcare and the influence on children's home learning
26 Mar 2009
According to the report:
- Over half of children under one were looked after solely by their parents (57%). 24% were cared for by information providers (i.e. relatives and friends), typically for a short amount of time and to allow parents some free time for non-economic related reasons (e.g. shopping, socialising).
- 36% of one to two–year-olds were looked after solely by their parents, while the most common packages of non-parental care included: centre based childcare only (21%), informal childcare only (19%) or a combination of the two (15%). Economic reasons (i.e. enabling parents to work, look for work or study) featured strongly for all packages of care, and where this was the case children were typically in non-parental care for 20 hours a week.
To read the full report visit www.dcsf.gov.uk.
(DCSF, 26 March 2009)
