Nursery World - How services must change

By Margaret Lochrie, chief executive of the Pre-school Learning Alliance National Childcare Month is a celebration of the mutual commitment of government and the leading national childcare bodies to create the childcare infrastructure that has eluded families in Britain for more than 50 years. The Pre-school Learning Alliance supports and represents 16,000 pre-schools, playgroups and community nurseries which provide sessional and full-day care for 500,000 children. In the next year alone, we hope to create 8,000 childcare places and up to 50 neighbourhood nurseries in some of the UK's most disadvantaged communities.

The Pre-school Learning Alliance supports and represents 16,000 pre-schools, playgroups and community nurseries which provide sessional and full-day care for 500,000 children. In the next year alone, we hope to create 8,000 childcare places and up to 50 neighbourhood nurseries in some of the UK's most disadvantaged communities.

But, important as this is, it's not enough. Too often, parents can't find the type of provision right for their children. Too often, sweeping changes of policy affecting children, such as early entry to school, are not properly understood by or justified to parents.

As part of our new charter campaign Changing Lives, Changing Life, we are lobbying for a change in the way early years services are delivered, to secure:

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