Guests at the launch of the Kids' Clubs Network's blueprint for out-of-school care, 'The Next Steps for School Age Childcare', were told by education minister Stephen Twigg that he was 'happy to take up the challenge' posed in the report of expanding the sector from 7,000 clubs today to 20,000 by 2010. Mr Twigg said the Government wanted to work with the private sector towards this expansion. He recalled meeting KCN chief executive Anne Longfield at the time of the KCN's 1995 report, 'The Next Step for School Age Childcare', when he worked as a research assistant to Margaret Hodge while she was developing Labour's childcare policies in opposition. That report called for a growth in provision to 5,000 clubs by 2000.
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