Jeremy Hunt’s childcare plan risks letting down mums who want to work - and mums who don’t ✒️ paulwaugh via ipaperviews
“this is about parental choice”. Yet in childcare – as in childbirth itself – choice is just a slogan unless it is adequately funded and properly informed.76 per cent of mothers who pay for childcare say it no longer makes financial sense for them to work
that there are likely to be more than two million working mothers of pre-school children who actively want to reduce the number of hours they work, if “they could afford it”. There has also been a growing number of women who take longer maternity leave these days than their working mothers ever did, with a six months or a year more popular than three months. That’s due to better statutory leave, shared parental leave, and employers having to meet the demands of staff.
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