Best Bear Childcare Launches UK-Wide Search For The Best Nursery

Best Bear Childcare, the independent listing of recommended childcare agencies and nurseries, has launched its UKs Best Nurseries Survey 2004 to produce a parent-generated insight into the care that nurseries do, dont, could and should provide.

London, UK (PRWEB) April 3, 2004 ---As Chancellor Gordon Brown announces sustained investment in early education and childcare, by creating 1700 children's centres around the country by 2008, childcare is a focal point in todays society.

Groundbreaking survey: Britain's Best Nurseries as voted by Britain's Parents

Parents of nursery school children across the UK are invited to vote by visiting www.bestbear.co.uk/parents/nursery_survey.aspx

If you fill in the survey before the end of May you will have a chance to win one of three 100 vouchers to spend on Aspace kids furniture.

Once their findings are published, www.bestbear.co.uk will also act as an ongoing platform for parents and childcarers to share comments about nurseries.

The aim of our survey is to provide a different insight from Ofsted reports, and provide an invaluable source of information on where to go for the best nurseries, helping to establish minimum acceptable standards for nurseries, as judged by parents," says Sally Harrison, Director of Best Bear.

With 30,000 unique users a month, Best Bear Childcare is already firmly established a comprehensive and quality-controlled guide to childcare agencies in the UK. With various new services added in the last six months, including parenting forums and the facility for parents to post their own classified ads, Best Bear Childcare can cater for all your childcare and parenting needs.

Links:

UK Nursery Survey 2004
www.bestbear.co.uk/parents/nursery_survey.aspx
UK Nursery Search:
www.bestbear.co.uk/parents/nurseries.htm

Contact:
Sally Harrison, Director
Best Bear Childcare Limited
Phone: 020 7352 5852
feedback@bestbear.co.uk
www.bestbear.co.uk

Dates for Parents Diaries
·Save The Children Week: April 25th-May 2nd, 2004.

·NSPCC Childrens Day: May 5th, 2004

Facts for Editors
·There are 2.8 million working mothers in the UK

·Over 500,000 children are cared for by day nurseries.

·In total 1.7 million children use childcare.

·There are nearly 10,000 day nurseries in England and Wales.

·Day nurseries are one of the fastest growing small businesses, with the number of nurseries having risen by 34 per cent since 2001.

·An estimated 25 per cent of nurseries also provide out-of-school care for 5-11 year olds.

Source: ndna.org.uk

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