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Trust envisions universal care

The Daycare Trust kicked off National Sure Start Month last week with a ten-step plan outlining a new vision of universal early education and care. To mark its role as host of National Childcare Week, the Trust called for:

To mark its role as host of National Childcare Week, the Trust called for:

* an extension of paid parental leave to 12 months

* increased entitlement to free early education to 20 hours a week for all two- to four-year-olds

* the introduction of income-related subsidies for parents needing wraparound childcare

* an independent review of the whole early education and childcare funding system.

Susan Crane, Daycare Trust chief executive, said, 'Achieving all this is an ambitious task that will require the right approach and right investment.

But broken down into the ten steps in this vision, we believe such reform and improvement can happen.'

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