In a YouGov survey of 2,055 adults earlier this month, 28 per cent of families with children under 18 and earning less than £15,000 a year said they had been unable to find a job or had been forced to leave one because they could not afford to pay for childcare.
UK poverty spokesman for Save the Children, Jason Strelitz, said, 'Many parents on low incomes simply can't afford to go to work. The costs of childcare are so high that by going to work, they lose more money than they make. Many parents have to leave their jobs to look after their children.'
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