Mums should be paid £8,000 to stay home and look after kids, says report

A new report has claimed that mothers of young children should be paid £8,000 to stay at home and look after their little ones.

Civitas, the think tank which carried out the research, has urged the UK Government to bundle childcare grants into a single 'family support benefit'. This would see parents of children under the age of four granted up to £8,000 a year, reports Wales Online.

The report states: "We have taken this concept further with proposals for a Family Support Benefit which would roll all £16 billion of government child benefit and child care expenditure into a frontloaded payment.