Nursery World - 'Close ethnic childcare gap'

Areport on the childcare experiences of people from ethnic minorities has called for all early years settings to fully implement the Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000. The Daycare Trust last week published its report on the Parents' Eye, a one-year project run by the Trust and funded by the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation that highlighted the gaps in childcare for families from various ethnic communities. Among those the project worked with were Black Caribbean and Black African parents in Croydon, Surrey, the Chinese community in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, and the Bangladeshi community in Oldham and the Pakistani community in Rochdale, Lancashire.

The Daycare Trust last week published its report on the Parents' Eye, a one-year project run by the Trust and funded by the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation that highlighted the gaps in childcare for families from various ethnic communities. Among those the project worked with were Black Caribbean and Black African parents in Croydon, Surrey, the Chinese community in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, and the Bangladeshi community in Oldham and the Pakistani community in Rochdale, Lancashire.

The report recommended that a person be appointed in every local authority to support, advise and train those responsible for equal opportunities in each childcare setting, and that Children's Information Services be supported to be 'more creative' in how they provide information to all communities. It also recommended that the Government 'regularly monitor'

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