Nursery World - Childcare strategy to support family

A new childcare strategy for children and families in Wales was launched by the Welsh Assembly Government on Tuesday. Childcare Is For Children contains the Assembly's response to the recommendations put forward by the Childcare Working Group in January 2005.

Childcare Is For Children contains the Assembly's response to the recommendations put forward by the Childcare Working Group in January 2005.

It links into Flying Start, a 46m initiative which aims to give children living in disadvantaged areas in Wales a better start in life (News, 13 October).

The three main objectives of the strategy are to ensure that childcare supports the developmental needs of children, to ensure that it is widely available and affordable, and to provide childcare so that parents can balance work, family and other commitments.

The Assembly is allocating 12.5m for childcare and introducing a programme of free childcare and family support through Flying Start, placing a statutory duty on local authorities to provide sufficient childcare as part of the Childcare Bill, and taking over the leadership of Childcare Wales Learning and Working Mutually, a project which seeks to tackle childcare challenges in partnership, with an additional 1m over two years.

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