The scheme, which is being funded by the Daycare Trust through a grant from the Department for Education, aims to highlight models of good practice in children's centres which have been particularly successful in supporting child-caring grandparents, by awarding them 'hub status'.
The children's centres chosen as hubs of good practice by the Grandparents' Association are:
The project is just one of a number of pieces of work being undertaken by the Daycare Trust to understand the needs of grandparents who provide childcare, and develop services and information to support them.
Encouraging settings to reach out to grandparents and fathers was also the theme of the Daycare Trust's National Childcare Week (2-9 July 2012).
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