Childcare costs stop low-income families from taking on jobs
Monday, September 19, 2011
Low-income families across the UK are having to turn down work or consider leaving their jobs because they cannot afford childcare.
A Daycare Trust and Save the Children survey of more than 4,000 parentsfound that 61 per cent of parents living in severe poverty, with anannual household income of less than 12,000, struggle to pay forchildcare, compared with around a third of parents on higherincomes.
Cuts to Working Tax Credit have made four in ten working families insevere poverty consider giving up work, while 63 per cent of parents saythey cannot afford not to work, but struggle to pay for childcare.
