In a report published this week, the Trust said the use of childcare byworking parents had remained virtually unchanged, despite the freeentitlement and the childcare element of the Working Tax Credit.
More than one quarter of the families entitled to 12.5 hours of freechildcare were still being asked to pay and only 3 per cent of parentswere found to be receiving help through the Working Tax Credit. Ten percent of eligible families were not claiming their free entitlement, andthese tended to be from disadvantaged or low-income groups. The reportsaid that 87 per cent of households now contain someone who works'atypical hours', for which there is a lack of suitable childcare.
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