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Around the clock: childcare services at atypical times
- Authors:
- STATHAM June, MOONEY Ann
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 37p.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
With an increasingly service-based economy and 24-hour operation, more parents are working outside traditional 'nine-to-five' hours, Monday to Friday. At the same time, traditional childcare sources such as grandparents are predicted to become increasingly unavailable. This study by researchers at the Thomas Coram Research Unit looked at the barriers to developing childcare services to cover
Grandparents providing child care: briefing paper
- Author:
- STATHAM June
- Publisher:
- Childhood Wellbeing Research Centre
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 14p.
- Place of publication:
- Loughborough
This briefing paper presents the findings from a brief review of research evidence and statistical data on grandparents providing childcare. The aim of the review was to further understand the role of grandparents in providing childcare for grandchildren and the impact on their wellbeing. Key findings revealed that grandparents play prominent role in providing child care and supporting maternal employment, especially for low income families. They were the main child care arrangement for 35 per cent of families where the mother was working or studying when the child was nine months old, ahead of all other types of care. There is some evidence that children receiving informal childcare from grandparents in their first few years of life have as good or better vocabularies but do less well on numeracy and literacy tests and are more likely to be overweight and have higher levels of hyperactivity and peer difficulties. Closeness to grandparents, especially maternal grandparents, is associated with better grandchild adjustment.