Mothers and families joined the Halloween-themed marches on Saturday to call on new prime minister Rishi Sunak to take urgent action to increase funding for the childcare sector to make childcare more affordable, and improve the system of paid maternity and paternity leave.
Protests took place in Birmingham, Belfast, Bristol, Cardiff, Exeter, Glasgow, Leeds, London, Manchester, Newcastle, and Norwich.
Joeli Brearley CEO of campaign group Pregnant Then Screwed, which organised the protest, said, ‘Thousands of parents took to the streets today to demand their voices be heard by this Government. Parents of young children don’t protest unless they are really furious. They have had enough, They feel they are being set up to fail.’
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