Childcare and early years survey of parents 2012 to 2013, January 2014

The sample was selected from two sources: the main component was sampled from the Child Benefit Register (CBR) as for previous years of the survey, with an additional sample

from the May release of the CBR, meaning that the youngest sampled child on commencement of fieldwork will be around five months old.. focus of the child-specific questions from

 74 per cent of full day care settings and 68 per cent of sessional settings were delivering funded provision for two year olds at the time of the survey (September to

Three different questionnaires were used; one for the childcare group (full day care, sessional, after school, holiday care and children’s centres) 16 , one for the early years

Three different questionnaires were used; one for the childcare group (full day care, sessional, after school, holiday care and children’s centres) 9 , one for the early years

 Informal care was most likely to be used on just one day of the week, reflecting its more ad-hoc nature; 19% of children had received care from an informal provider on just one

Lower income families and lone parents found it harder, on average, to pay for their childcare and early years provision, than those in the highest income group (45 per cent

In 2003, supervisory staff made up 41 per cent of the overall paid childcare staff, while in 2005 the proportion had increased to nearly half at 48 per cent.. In 2003 there was