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childcare

January 5, 2021

Employers should offer furlough to parents affected by school closures, says TUC

Self-employed working parents will also need help, and should have automatic access to the self-employed income support scheme, says the TUC.
November 10, 2020

Universal Credit childcare costs case to be heard by High Court

Families on Universal Credit have been pushed into debt and hardship by upfront childcare costs.
October 28, 2020

Call for 'family stimulus' to support children and economy through pandemic

We have one of the least generous social security systems of any developed country, and putting cash in families' pockets would boost the economy, say the IPPR and TUC.
October 16, 2020

Reform of Universal Credit could lift 500,000 people out of poverty, says NEF

The package would cost less than the £9.4 billion earmarked for the Job Retention Bonus.
September 4, 2020

Working mothers face childcare crisis as new term starts, finds TUC poll

Polling reveals the huge pressures felt by working mothers during the coronavirus outbreak.
August 17, 2020

Early years workforce in England 'underpaid, overworked and undervalued'

As many as one in eight of the early years workforce is paid under £5.00 an hour, whilst the average wage is £7.42 an hour, less than the minimum wage.
August 9, 2020

Self-employment centres would help struggling workers and revive high streets, says NEF

Low-paid self-employed workers were unable to shift to home working during lockdown, unlike higher paid freelancers in professional services like consultancy or tutoring.
June 28, 2020

Government urged to cover nursery staff wages to protect sector from collapse

The report finds that without government intervention, the childcare sector will face mass redundancies.
March 14, 2020

Children in deprived areas of England missing out on quality childcare

The National Audit Office has found the take-up of free early education and childcare places and the quality of childcare providers to be lower in the most deprived areas of England.
March 8, 2020

Woman granted permission for judicial review of Universal Credit childcare provisions

A working mother has been given permission for a judicial review of Universal Credit childcare provisions after she was forced to reduce her working hours and into debt over childcare costs while on Universal Credit.