affordable childcare

• Childcare fees have increased by nearly half (44 per cent) for parents with kids aged under 2

· Union body warns that mums are caught in a “catch 22” with childcare costs soaring and statutory maternity pay falling in real value

· UK government must provide urgent funding boost for the childcare sector – not slash staffing requirements, says TUC

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• New analysis shows around 173,000 childcare workers across the UK would benefit from raising the minimum wage to £10 an hour
• Women, young people, and workers in the south east and south west of England would gain the most
• TUC calls for urgent cash boost to the childcare sector, and an immediate increase in the minimum wage to at least £10 an hour

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