Research by the Family and Childcare Trust reveals that parents across the country face widespread shortages in childcare for school-age children.
The joint survey with Netmums found that 40 per cent of parents of five- to 11-year-olds found it difficult to find childcare for their children once they start school at the beginning and the end of the school day.
Sixty-three per cent of parents have had to change the way they work to cope with childcare problems when their children started school, with 12 per cent forced to leave their jobs.
There are also widespread variations in the cost of childcare within regions, which means that families who live in the same area canbe hit by vastly different costs for childcare.
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