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Play daysJob opportunities are opening up for playworkers, as 60,000 new staff will be needed over the next five years for expanding out-of-school provision. Anne Longfield, chief executive of the Kids Clubs Network, the national charity which promotes and supports out-of-school childcare, reports that there are more than 5,000 kids clubs in the UK at present and estimates that in five years time there will be around 20,000

Job opportunities are opening up for playworkers, as 60,000 new staff will be needed over the next five years for expanding out-of-school provision. Anne Longfield, chief executive of the Kids Clubs Network, the national charity which promotes and supports out-of-school childcare, reports that there are more than 5,000 kids clubs in the UK at present and estimates that in five years time there will be around 20,000.

The clubs offer a combination of part-time work during term time and full-time work during the holidays for playwork assistants, as well as year-round full-time jobs for co-ordinators. Of the staff needed over the next five years, about 20,000 will be co-ordinators and 40,000 assistants.

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