Ensuring quality of care for children who spend their day with more than one provider is a juggling act in itself. Anne Wiltsher reports on a pilot scheme
Explaining 'wraparound care' is difficult. It sounds kind of warm and cosy. Does it involve blankets? A tender embrace? Perhaps it's a form of therapy? It is, in fact, a term long used by childcare practitioners to describe the 'add on' care provided before and after the hours a child spends at nursery or school. And it is now an official aim of the Department for Education and Employment to extend public provision of nursery education (part-time places for four-year-olds, and all three-year-olds by 2004) to accommodate parents who are working or training.
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