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Childcare centres in deprived areas could be the remedy for social exclusion, says the Daycare Trust

Centres for Children should become the hub of every deprived community in the country to meet the needs of children in poverty and break the cycle of social exclusion, according to a briefing paper launched today by the national childcare charity, the Daycare Trust.

The proposal, outlined in Achieving potential: how childcare tackles poverty among young children and just ahead of the next week's Budget, stems from evidence that the Government's childcare policies are failing to reach those children most in need.

One in five children in the UK now live in a household where no-one works, almost all of them poor - a higher proportion than in any other developed nation.

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