Anne Longfield Articles

Finding affordable, flexible and high quality childcare remains a massive challenge for most parents. Despite significant investment by Governments over the last 15 years, many families still have a perception that the childcare system is stacked against them.  For...

Any party that does not put Sure Start children’s centres at the heart of its election manifesto for families will make a mistake. When Sure Start began in 1999, it set out with a vision of creating a new service architecture in every disadvantaged area, something...

With the pound in people’s pockets likely to be a hot topic of the general election in 2015 and the cost of childcare escalating, the availability of  childcare and  childcare costs are issues being taken seriously by all political parties. The last Labour government...