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Budget 2023: Hunt warns childcare support boost ‘can’t happen overnight’

Support to be ‘ramped up in orderly way’ amid concerns system won’t cope with increased demand but struggling parents say help arriving ‘too late’

Evening Standard · Mar 15, 2023

'Free childcare promise is life-changing as I'm in survival mode - but it's a Catch-22'

Lucie Driver, 26, has sleepless nights over paying bills and affording childcare when her mat leave comes to an end. While she says the new package announced today by Jeremy Hunt is 'life-changing', she raises concern about the toll on nurseries and their staff

Daily Mirror · Mar 15, 2023

Desperate mums being forced into sex work to feed their children, say charities

One single working mother says she sees 'no way out' of webcam sex work due to 'crippling' childcare costs of up to £700 a month. Anna said the work made her feel dirty, violated and sick

Wales Online · Nov 20, 2022

March of the Mummies: Thousands of mothers take to the streets calling for childcare reform

Around 15,000 mothers are expected to attend the family-friendly marches across UK cities

The Independent UK · Oct 29, 2022

March of The Mummies: Sarah Solemani warns childcare crisis is damaging couples’ relationships

‘It will affect your family planning. It will affect your career. It will affect your relationship,’ actor tells Maya Oppenheim

The Independent UK · Oct 29, 2022

March of the Mummies - inside the ‘walking dead’ parental protest

Pregnant Then Screwed founder Joeli Brearley tells Martha Alexander about the serious intent behind their zombie march for the rights of mothers

Evening Standard · Oct 24, 2022

Pregnant Then Screwed March of the Mummies: Why 1,000 Leeds mums will take part Halloween protest

The Halloween-themed protest will highlight the 'horrific' treatment of mums in the UK

Leeds Live · Oct 11, 2022

UK childcare is collapsing – and forcing mothers back into the home

Spiralling costs are leaving some parents with no option but to give up work, says the writer Lucy Pasha-Robinson

The Guardian - UK · Oct 11, 2022

Met faces legal action after refusing to police ‘March of the Mummies’

Campaigners accuse force of ‘trying to prevent women from organising’ over childcare protest in London

The Guardian - UK · Sep 30, 2022

Maternal rights campaigners attack Truss childcare tax plan

Giving tax breaks to stay-at-home parents would give women less choice unless childcare was made cheaper, campaigner Joeli Brearley said.

The Independent UK · Jul 22, 2022