Twenty-one years ago, when a group of pioneering women founded Daycare Trust, childcare was seen as a family matter. The very rich had nannies, highly-paid professionals used the small number of private day nurseries. Nursery education, with its proven benefits for children, was overwhelmingly in the private sector, accessible to only a tiny minority and receiving no government subsidy.
Daycare Trust, with the National Centre for Social Research (NatCen), has just published Childcare Nation?, the first comprehensive look at childcare in England since the publication three years ago of the government's ten-year Childcare Strategy. The organisation, which still proudly bears the title of the National Childcare Campaign, is still pushing for change in this crucial area, but in a landscape transformed from that childcare desert of the 1980s.
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