Unless there were extenuating circumstances, each family childcare home and each preschool site had one assessor as primary contact.
The idea, pioneered by the then family minister was to bring together under one roof, groups that had previously operated in isolation from each other – childcare groups, youth centres, mothers' clubs, advice centres and communities for older people.
In Ghana, the Mobile Technology for Community Health initiative aims to improve healthcare for pregnant mothers by providing time-specific information about their pregnancies and childcare each week.
Three- and four-year-olds are entitled to 15 hours of free childcare each week, which could be worth up to £180, for 38 weeks of the year.
Families provide each other with childcare, emotional support and practical help which would otherwise fall on social services or the NHS.
These reports, by the way, can also be automated, so that, as the Scout team notes, you can "notify significant others or their childcare each day when they have left and when they should arrive".
"By the end of the next parliament, my commitment is that all 3 and 4 year olds and all eligible 2 years olds will receive, not 16 hours, but 30 hours of free childcare each week".
"By the end of the next parliament, my commitment is that all three and four year olds and all eligible two years olds will receive, not 16 hours, but 30 hours of free childcare each week," she said.
Under its plans, it said children would be entitled to 30 hours of childcare each week - the same number of hours as a child at primary school - benefiting about 240,000 children.
As new parents we decided that we'd share childcare and each work four days a week.
