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TUC: Crippling childcare costs 'hold women back and create poverty'
Delegate says Cuba's free universal childcare responsible for 48% of MPs being women
The crippling cost of childcare is holding women back and plunging families into poverty, the TUC has warned.
Delegates backed a resolution from TUC Women’s Conference on Tuesday demanding that politicians act to provide affordable and accessible childcare for all.
NUT delegate Amanda Martin told congress that she and her husband worked long hours and had to fork out £9,000 a year to have their three boys, aged 12, 10 and seven, looked after in the evenings.
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