According to a report for the Department for Children, Schools and Families on childcare packages used by families, only 14 per cent of five- to 11-year-olds use out-of-school childcare. Eight per cent use it exclusively while for another six per cent it is combined with informal childcare. Forty-nine per cent of this age group use no childcare at all.
"For school-age children, the need for non-parental childcare seemed to diminish and even the of out-of-school childcare was relatively uncommon," the report, Fitting it all Together, states.
The findings of the report indicate that take-up of childcare in primary schools remains low despite its status as a core offer of extended schools.
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