Full-time nursery costing nearly £15k a year.

Tonight with Andrew Marr · Mar 9, 2023 · 49m

There is a crisis in the UK's childcare system. It now costs an average of £15,000 a year to keep children between 1-2 years old in nursery according to a new report by the charity Coram, a figure that will simply be unaffordable for many. The impact of childcare often has an understated on the parents as well as the child - it means parents being forced to put a pause on their career for a few years to look after their children full time. Which also means household budgets shrink, and this impacts the rest of the economy. The Chair of the Commission on Young Lives Anne Longfield joins the…