Over the summer Daycare Trust and Save the Children surveyed more than 4,000 parents from across the country to ask them about the true cost of childcare. Why did we do this?
Well, we know from Daycare Trust’s annual childcare costs survey that childcare costs have risen every year over the last decade. We know from OECD data that parents in the UK contribute more towards childcare than any other country, spending on average 33 per cent of their net income on childcare. And we know from our survey of London childcare providers earlier this year that parents’ inability to pay for childcare has emerged as the biggest sustainability issue for providers in the capital.
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