In its latest report, Tackling Childcare Affordability, the assembly’s health and public services committee said with childcare costs in London up to a third more than the rest of the country, parents and in particular mothers struggle to go back to work and access early education for their children.
With the added burden of longer working hours and commuting time, the committee said that many parents on low to middle incomes find that working is unaffordable, resulting in the lowest level of maternal employment in the country.
To overcome the problem the committee is calling on the government to make allowances within the universal credit that recognise the higher costs of childcare in the capital and also to ensure that the free entitlement to childcare is more flexible so parents can access it at more suitable times for those who work.
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