It is bonkers that the childcare Universal Credit offer is only used by 13% of parents because the system is so poor. I have been working hard with Onward, the DWP Select Committee and pestering the government to see this changed and I will be continuing to campaign for this in the run up to the Spring Budget next week.
The Sun have been running a brilliant campaign called ‘Make Universal Credit Work’ which has called for childcare money to be paid to parents on benefits upfront so that they can afford to move into a job.
This comes alongside Save the Children’s new polling which shows that a staggering 54% of mums with young children have had to say no to taking on more hours at work due to childcare costs.
Half of primary school mums have to cut hours over expensive childcare | The Sun
