There were a few hundred after-school clubs in the late 1980s but dramatic expansion has resulted in the numbers topping 10,000 and continuing to climb. A target of 20,000 clubs by 2010 is reachable, given the necessary political will and finance, according to a report from the Kids' Club Network (KCN) and HSBC Bank.
The report, Next Stage for School Age Childcare 2003, provides evidence that this growth in out-of-school provision has a wide range of social benefits, from improving parents' employment prospects, with 43 per cent saying their job situation was better, to reducing teenage crime, improving health and raising educational standards.
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