Ivana La Valle Author

Alice Bell is a Researcher at NatCen (National Centre for Social Research) where she has been involved in the design and coordination of several large-scale surveys in the fields of education and childcare, including a recent national survey of parents of three- and four-year-old children, which explored their use of early years services. Ivana La Valle is a Research Director at NatCen where she is responsible for coordinating the NatCen policy interest group on families and children. In recent years she has conducted several large-scale surveys, as well as in-depth qualitative studies, on the link between parental employment and childcare provision, family-friendly working practices, student parents and the impact of atypical working on family life.