Daycare Trust advises parents and carers, providers, employers, trade unions and policymakers on childcare issues.
The concept for Daycare Trust emerged in the 1970s in the context of the growing feminist movement.
Activists, mostly women, from various organizations campaigned to establish nurseries in various places, primarily in colleges and universities.
In 1986, a group of these activists established Daycare Trust, creating a unified base of support to carry out the charitable work of the National Childcare Campaign (a coalition of local groups formed in 1980 to campaign for workplace nurseries and better staff training).
[7] The organisation's current policy priorities are set out in the 2010 publication Childcare Charter,[8] published in the run up to the 2010 general election.