The Family and Childcare Trust’s 2014 London Childcare report says that maternal employment is lower than elsewhere in the city because of high childcare costs and a shortage of places.
For those working shifts, just a handful of London's 33 councils - Hammersmith and Fulham, Harrow, Lambeth, and Richmond - are able to provide sufficient childcare for parents working outside office hours.
The childcare charity says that parents in London pay 28 per cent more for childcare than elsewhere in the country, with 25 hours a week costing £109.89 a week for a child under two.
Over the course of a year, this equates to paying £1,500 more than parents elsewhere.
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