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The Government wants families with disabled children to be able to access high quality childcare that helps children grow and fulfil their potential, and gives their parents the opportunity to work.
The Aiming High for Disabled Children (AHDC) programme has allocated £35 million to improve childcare provision for families with disabled children. This will be used by local authorities to pilot accessible forms of childcare. These pilots will focus on childcare for those disabled children who are currently least likely to be able to access services, including older children and children with complex needs.
Local authorities have new duties to secure a sufficient supply of childcare in their area, with a particular focus on the provision of childcare for disabled children.
The pilot areas for the childcare funding have now been selected. They are: Barking & Dagenham, Bradford, Camden, Cornwall, Luton, Northumberland, Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Sefton and Solihull. For further information, please read the DCSF press release.
The Disabled Children's Access to Childcare (DCATCH) pilot, now in it's second year is developing projects to improve access to childcare for disabled children and reduce attitudinal barriers. The National Centre for Social Research (NatCen) in conjunction with the University of Bristol (Norah Fry Centre) and University of Warwick (School of Health and Social Studies), have now been selected to carry out the evaluation of the DCATCH pilot. They will be reporting their findings in March 2011.
For more information on the Ten Year Childcare Strategy, go to the 'Policy context' page or to 'Increasing childcare take-up: Disabled children'.
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Last updated on 25/06/2009
