Nursery World - 2bn plan for out-of-school

A blueprint for the future of school-age childcare has been unveiled to mark this week's Kids' Clubs Week, part of National Childcare Month. The Next Steps for School-Age Childcare 2002, supported by HSBC and launched at a reception in London this week, sets out the Kids' Clubs Network's vision of how to expand out-of-school care from 7,000 clubs to 20,000 by 2010 -one linked to every primary school in the UK. The Network has put together a ten-point plan outlining how this target could be reached at an estimated cost of more than 2bn.

The Next Steps for School-Age Childcare 2002, supported by HSBC and launched at a reception in London this week, sets out the Kids' Clubs Network's vision of how to expand out-of-school care from 7,000 clubs to 20,000 by 2010 - one linked to every primary school in the UK. The Network has put together a ten-point plan outlining how this target could be reached at an estimated cost of more than 2bn.

KCN chief executive Anne Longfield said, 'This plan is an update and follows The Next Step for School Age-Childcare, which we published in 1995.

At that point there were 1,000 clubs and we set out how we could achieve 5,000 by the year 2000, a target that has been achieved.

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