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’, ‘Banks denying families mortgages because of childcare costs’, ‘Parents to face rise in nursery costs’ – in the space of a week, these are just some of the headlines on national publications on the ever-worsening state of childcare in this country. The UK has the world’s second most expensive childcare system , a fact most parents will not be surprised to hear, and one that is over-subscribed too.
last month to demand a better system. So why is it like this? We’ll examine this very thorny issue, after the news.Wealthy non-doms and big business should be paying to plug Britain’s £60bn black hole rather than ordinary taxpayers, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has said., Sir Keir and the shadow Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, said ordinary working people should not have to pay higher taxes to “mop up the mess” of the Conservative Government.
The combined effect of backlogs, Covid-19, flu and strikes on the NHS is expected to be so great this winter that doctors and nurses have been given official permission to scale back on “established rulessigned by Sir Chris Whitty, England’s chief medical officer, says this year’s winter pressures will be “significant and potentially prolonged” and could be made even worse by staff sickness.
Brexit “permanently damaged” the United Kingdom’s economy, a former Bank of England rate-setter has said.: “If we hadn’t had Brexit, we probably wouldn’t be talking about an austerity budget this week. The need for tax rises [and] spending cuts wouldn’t be there, if Brexit hadn’t reduced the economy’s potential output so much.”this week’s Autumn StatementThe PM and Chancellor had considered saving £5bn by uplifting pensions in line with average earnings rather than a double-digit increase.
A mother who allegedly interrupted a nurse who was attacking her newborn son wept as she told a court she “knew something was very wrong”The mother told court she walked into the neonatal unit at Countess of Chester Hospital to find her son making a “horrendous” screaming noise that “shouldn’t have come from a tiny baby”.“Our joint income is £90k but we can’t afford a second child due to nursery costs,”earlier this month.
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