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| Parks for Play half term playscheme starts today |
With the total number of places for holiday childcare continuing to fall, prices for childcare continuing to rise, what has become of the
government's attempts to make childcare more available and affordable? And what of our most vulnerable children facing social exclusion because of their individual needs, often disability, or their families in desperate need of support, particularly during holidays?
In Birmingham at least,
Parks for Play continues to address some of this need, running fully inclusive after-school playcare and playschemes during holidays. However this appears to be the only only service of it's kind across the UK, despite the government recognising that families without good access to childcare are less able to remain in work.
