Local authorities involved in the Government-funded Childcare Taster Pilot (CTP) and Extended Schools Childcare Pilot Programmes (ESCP) have found that childcare is potentially the 'last barrier of a row of hurdles that lone parents have to cross on their way from income support to full-time work'.
A report into the initial findings, published by the DfES last month, said that going back to work often had 'more to do with their fears about the quality of their working lives, and the balance of rewards for themselves and for their children, rather than with any real perception of what childcare is available'.
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