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Childcare costs keep parents out of work
By Catherine Gaunt,
Nursery World,
16 July 2008
The high cost of childcare is stopping a quarter of parents on low incomes from working, the charity Save the Children claims.
In a YouGov survey of 2,055 adults earlier this month, 28 per cent of families with children under 18 and earning less than £15,000 a year said they had been unable to find a job or had been forced to leave one because they could not afford to pay for childcare. UK poverty spokesman for Save the Children, Jason Strelitz, said, 'Many parents on low incomes simply can't afford to go to work. The costs of childcare are...
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