CHILDCARE

Last Updated on Wednesday, 08 May 2013 13:11

ARTICLES ON CHILDCARE

• Discipline and Boundary Setting
  
  
• Childcare for older children
  
  
• Holiday childcare and activities
  
  
• Promising too much? - Managing your familys expectations
  
  
• One year on
  
  
• Grandfathers – and childcare
  
  
• The ups and downs of providing childcare for your grandchildren

FAMILY  CHILDCARE CHECKLIST - Use our checklist to help plan your family childcare!

• Mums to be and new mums – helpful checklist for those planning for their mum and dad to look after their baby when they go back to work

• Grandparents – helpful checklist for those taking on childcare for their grandchildren

YOU'RE NOT ALONE - SHARING STORIES

• You're not alone
  
  
• A week in the life of a grandparent providing childcare

• Grandfathers and childcare - Read Granddad John’s story

YOUR GRANDCHILDREN

• Are you providing full time care or antisocial hours childcare?
  
  
• Helping families caring for a disabled child
  
  
• Bullying - How to identify bullying and how to help
  
  
• Responsible for teenage grandchildren during the week?
  
  
• Are you worried about your grandchild’s happiness or behaviour?
  
  
• Developing the communication skills of your young grandchildren
  
  
• Are you looking after a disabled grandchild during the week?
  
  
• Support for you and your family if your grandchild is disabled

Q&A's FOR GRANDPARENTS PROVIDING CHILDCARE
We have compiled a list of the most common queries on issues we hear from grandparents who are undertaking to look after their grandchildren whose parents are working or studying.

• Practical queries

• Sensitive and emotional issues

ALL ABOUT EDUCATION AND LEARNING

• Preparing your grandchild for nursery
  
  
• Informing Grandparents about EYFS
  
  
• Booktrust - Vera Waters shares her tips on storytelling and sharing books with children
  
  
• Helping your grandchild develop maths and number skills
  
  
• Helping your grandchildren learn

• Parents’ Guide to the Early Years Foundation Stage Framework plus more information on Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS)

• Tests and exams

• The benefits of quality childcare
  

CHILDCARE HUB


As part of our work supporting grandparents providing informal childcare for their grandchildren, we are awarding Hub Status to Children’s Centres who have been particularly successful in supporting childcaring grandparents.

This section will provide news on their activities, what grandparents say about their services, what forms of outreach worked and what didn’t, plus a lot more.

Calling all Children Centres. If you are interested in the work being done in our HUBS and would like to know more email hub@grandparents-association.org.uk

STOP PRESS: GPA Hubs initiative highlighted in Nursery World

REPORTS OF INTEREST

• Childcare Cost Survey 2012

• Informal Childcare: Choice or Chance?

• Listening to Grandparents

• Invaluable role of grandparents as childcarers

• Making Work Pay - The Childcare Trap

MORE HELP

• Search our existing support groups

• Help & Information
  
  
  
  

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