Liz Truss's childcare plans will drive women from workforce, campaigner warns 💬 “This latest plan won’t do anything to fix the system and does nothing to change the fact we have an unaffordable, inaccessible and dysfunctional childcare system'
Ms Brearley says if childcare payments are given directly to families to spend as they desire, they will look at their childcare options and do their sums – before realising the figures just don’t add up.
Joeli Brearley, CEO and founder of Pregnant Then Screwed, a charity which campaigns for women who have faced maternity or pregnancy discrimination it is important to highlight that a positive consequence of the proposals is that it would make things better for“The way the current subsidy works, it only benefits middle-class families and higher earners because the subsidy doesn’t kick in until a child is three-years-old for the majority of families,” she explained.
However, she added: “Although it will be a positive for low-income families by allowing them to access some of the money they haven’t been able to access previously, it still locks them out of the childcare sector as it doesn’t mean they can access it. It just gives them a bit more money than they had previously.”childcare crisis
“On creating childcare systems that work for families, no other country does this. They all invest in the childcare sector properly to make it affordable and accessible for families. “What Liz Truss really needs to do is properly sit down and investigate and find out why we have one of the worst childcare systems in the world.
“Instead, Liz Truss seems to be saying: ‘Right, I’m Prime Minister; I need to put out some good news and change things’ and she’s not looking at the evidence or having conversations with the sector to come up with a plan that actually works.”
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