The grandparents’ charity warns that this will mean that many grandmothers who provide childcare will have to juggle work and care.
Grandparents are also likely to be older and may be in poorer health or have a partner who needs care, which could reduce their capacity to look after their grandchildren.
The charity’s new report ‘Doing it all?’, which compares data from the British Social Attitudes Surveys in 1998 and 2009, reveals that grandmothers aged 55 to 64 provide the most childcare, the group who will be affected by the increase in state pension age.
Nearly two-thirds of grandparents with grandchildren under 16 are providing childcare.
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