[PDF] Top 20 Provision of early learning and childcare and parents’ outcomes: an evidence brief

... the evidence suggests that there is a connection between ELC costs and women’s market labour ...where parents spend around 10% of net family income on ELC, maternal employment rates are ... See full document

... ELC provision has been a core strand of Scottish Government policy over the last decade, with the dual aim of improving child outcomes and supporting parental (particularly maternal) ...whose parents ... See full document

... Some evidence this could lead to improved parental economic outcomes, by enabling parents to return to ...Limited evidence this may also enable uptake of ...improve parents’ health and ... See full document

... any evidence to suggest that such an increase is likely to have any notable impact on children’s outcomes by the time they enter school, either positive or ...ELC provision, where most children ... See full document

... of childcare subsidies is also now available directly to ...the childcare element within the Working Tax Credit (WTC), which is available to low and middle income parents working more than 16 hours a ... See full document

... of evidence to improve our understanding of early years childcare provision and use from the perspective of ...of childcare arrangements, and it is not clear to what extent this ... See full document

... the early education/childcare sector was characterised by long working hours and the need to have sufficient staff cover for the number of children in the ...the early education/childcare ... See full document

... include early years providers in maintained settings (including nursery schools and reception classes), full daycare (including in children's centres), sessional care - holiday clubs and after school clubs which ... See full document

... the early education and childcare workforce and progress here was noted by Dame Clare Tickell in her review of the Early Years Foundation ...group-based childcare settings outside schools (76 ... See full document

... Six of these inspections were of providers of childcare on non-domestic premises and three were of childminders. Of the nine, three were judged to be good for overall effectiveness; three were requires ... See full document

... than parents of two-year-olds in the general ...development outcomes. For most parents, the ELC setting attended by their child was accessible – almost two-thirds could make the journey within 10 ... See full document

... lone parents, children in rented accommodation, receipt of income support, homeless families, shared accommodation and non-white ethnic population (plus and indicator of local cost variations) 5 ... See full document

... To date, the CEYSP has used the Child Benefit Register (CBR), which is held and maintained by Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) as the sampling frame. Children aged 0 to 14 in England are sampled using a ... See full document

... the parents in the social life, for professional realisation and overcoming the social isolation they often ...of parents that through the day care centres and their services they have opportunity to get ... See full document

... formal childcare are particularly crucial for lone ...around childcare it was not the intention of our study to explore these differences, but rather to consider perceptions of the relative merits of formal ... See full document

... of parents using childcare at some time in the past ...some childcare, it is not surprising that the proportion of parents who used any childcare in the past year has remained ...use ... See full document

... for parents, the two main options for childcare support described above will mean that lone parents and second earners on low-to-middle incomes will have no financial incentive to work full ... See full document

... 50 Parents, then, are predicted not only to face difficulties in evaluating the quality of provision before a child has enrolled (Pestoff 2009), but also perhaps to remain unaware of quality even when ... See full document

... on parents’ ‘top of the mind’ understanding of their household finances, rather than a detailed examination of more precise information they might ...cover childcare for all children in the household (and ... See full document

... lone parents in seeking to coordinate work, childcare and education by reducing travel ...some parents who were childminders and others who ran different sorts of businesses from ...making ... See full document