There will be some sense of relief for many parents this week as their kids head back to school in the coming days after six weeks of figuring out costly childcare arrangements. Mum-of-two Anna Whitehouse has been campaigning for childcare costs to be capped in the UK and for flexible working arrangements to be the norm for workers where it's possible.
In 2015, the 41-year-old was forced to leave her job after her boss refused her request to start her day 15 minutes earlier so she could leave 15 minutes earlier to pick up her tot from nursery. Since that moment, she has vowed to not let her two daughters, now five and nine, have to compromise their careers to become mothers.
"My boss said 'we can't do it for you because it might open the floodgates to other people needing flexible working'," Anna, also known as Mother Pukka, tells the Mirror.
