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National Childcare Week 20-27 May. Listening to children and parents Well-trained staff and high-quality settings are the key to ensuring that childcare directly benefits children, according to a report by the Daycare Trust.

Well-trained staff and high-quality settings are the key to ensuring that childcare directly benefits children, according to a report by the Daycare Trust.

The report, Quality matters: Ensuring childcare benefits children, analyses evidence from international studies to show that childcare has important measurable and lasting beneficial effects on the education, health and welfare of children, particularly children from disadvantaged backgrounds. The research shows that to maximise the benefits for children's development the services they attend must be of good quality.

According to the report, launched at the start of National Childcare Week, making high-quality universal childcare available to all families would require:

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