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TUC women call for Budget protection of pricey childcare
Activists tell tales of prohibitive expense
Women activists demanded yesterday that Chancellor George Osborne protect childcare as he drafts cuts for his Budget speech next week.
Over 300 women at this year's TUC women's conference unanimously voted to lobby the chancellor on Budget day "so that all parents on universal credit will have 85 per cent of their costs paid for."
The vote came after a lengthy debate on the difficulty of raising children under Con-Dem austerity.
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