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.
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