When new mum Lucie Driver heard Jeremy Hunt announce a major multimillion-pound expansion package for childcare support in today's Budget, she breathed a sigh of relief.
Like many parents across the UK, she described the news that working families with children over nine months will be entitled to 30 hours free childcare as "life-changing".
But after the initial joy had settled, Lucie, from Penistone, South Yorkshire, describes it as a Catch-22. She doesn't want to say no to the offer because as she puts it, she has no other choice, and her family have been surviving rather than living since her daughter Luna was born eight months ago.
