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Childcare and Early Years: Parents' Survey 2008

Up-to-date and accurate information on families’ childcare arrangements

About this study

The Childcare and Early Years Survey of Parents 2008 is part of a series of surveys that provides up-to-date and accurate information on families' childcare arrangements, their views of childcare providers, and their thoughts about childcare in their local area.

You can read the findings from this year (2008) here.

Potential policy impact

The Childcare and Early Years Survey of Parents is an important way to monitor the progress of policies in the areas of childcare and early years education, and in particular, of the 10-Year Childcare Strategy.

Methodology

As part of this survey, face-to-face interviews are carried out with over 7,000 parents of children aged 14 and under. Parents are randomly selected to take part from Child Benefit records to make sure that they are representative of all parents in England.

Find out more

You can read the full report here.

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