The charity Gingerbread has asked candidates for City Hall to meet the upfront costs of child care for lone parents trying to bag into work
The cost of childcare forms a large piece of the vast London poverty picture,yet too often goes unseen. Everyone speaks up for the London Living Wage. Affordable housing enjoys star billing in the capital’s political debate. But the financial strains and human dilemmas tied up with the price of a nursery space or paying a childminder’s fee command far less attention than they should.
The single parent charity Gingerbread is trying to put that suitable with a recent report on how London’s childcare economics make it harder for, in specific, and young women with pre-school age children to hold down jobs and a suggestion for how the next mayor could help.
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Source: theguardian.com