Nursery World - TUC calls for emergency bailout of childcare sector

The TUC is calling for an urgent ‘cash injection’ for the childcare sector, warning that without it there will not be enough places for working parents to return to their jobs, as the lockdown eases.

The move is one of a number of emergency measures that the TUC is calling for to prevent widespread and unnecessary job losses among working parents.

In a new report, Forced out: the cost of getting childcare wrong, the TUC argues that without immediate action to support women to stay in work there is a risk that decades of progress on women’s labour market participation will be lost.

According to the TUC, key workers, who are more likely to be women, have struggled to access childcare during the crisis, with 67 percent of early years providers unable to offer provision to any parents, having to close completely, and many fearing that they will be unable to reopen due to financial loss.

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