Kwasi Kwarteng's mini-budget unfairly targets women who work part time 🔵 ipaperviews
– in other words raising the number of children that one childcare worker can be in charge of. This would be disastrous. For childcare to be an effective support for parents that’s also good for children’s development, it needs highly qualified workers and good ratios, not low quality, demoralised workers and high ratios. Look at what’s happening already in social care. We should learn from that.
But poor productivity has been causing limited GDP growth for years. It has been ignored for years by governments who talk about investing in skills, training and technology as the sole solutions but don’t do much about any of those things. It has been ignored by Tory governments who repeatedly focus on physical infrastructure investment – roads, bridges, buildings and all the men’s jobs that creates – and tax cuts for the rich – like bankers, and business leaders .
If the Conservative party could recognise that women make up a large proportion of the people who depend on benefits because of the very real barriers they face to paid employment, we might make progress.
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