Last week's conference in London, called 'Investing in our Future - Making the NHS Childcare Strategy Work', was organised by the Daycare Trust and the Department of Health.
Colette Kelleher, head of partnership operations and advisory unit at the Department for Education and Skills, told delegates that childcare co-ordinators employed by NHS Trusts to help deliver the childcare strategy should work with other key agencies, particularly EYDCPs. She said, 'There are shared targets, but we need to make this more than a happy coincidence by bringing the two interest groups together by co-ordination and sharing of plans centrally as well as locally. By working together the money goes further and parents and children have more help.'
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