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BONUS: Britain’s childcare crisis, with Stella Creasy

Daily Politics from the New Statesman

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Is One Woman at the Top Going to Change That Culture?

Morgan: We need to really frighten peers Morgan don't we they need to be women everywhere because that's what equality looks like. The way in which our benefit system funds childcare again actively discriminates against women from the lowest incomes getting into work and being able to pay childcare in the first place. There is money out there but it's being directed in the wrong places because it comes from the wrong set of expectations about what mums will need rather than doing policy to mums why don't we talk to them and make sure it works? Ela creasey says she wants universal credit reform, not just for single parents as much as everyone else.

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