Equality and Human Rights Commission

Improving choices and chances for parents and children

Our policy paper 'Childcare Matters'  explores the role of childcare in supporting parents to balance work and caring responsibilities. It assesses whether current provision helps or hinders parents’ wishes to combine work and caring, and highlights the importance of good quality childcare in closing the educational attainment gaps between rich and poor.

Download:

Childcare Matters: Improving choices and chances for parents and children (PDF)

Childcare Matters: Improving choices and chances for parents and children (WORD)

Childcare: A review of what parents want (PDF)

Childcare: A review of what parents want (WORD)

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• Find out what the Working Better initiative is all about, including information from the launch of Phase Two in January 2010.
• Read our first report which takes a detailed look at what modern parents say would make a difference to them and offers some possible solutions and initiatives to help make that a reality.
• View video clips and download the guide from our launch of Working Better: A Managers’ Guide to Flexible Working.