Nursery World - Childcare costs 'pushing families into poverty'

More than 130,000 children are living in poverty because their working parents struggle with paying for childcare, new research claims.

Rising childcare costs are pushing families into poverty, a new report commissioned by Gingerbread and the Child Poverty Action Group has found.

The analysis by the Centre for Research in Social Policy at Loughborough University looks at child poverty after housing and childcare costs are taken into account.

The researchers also found that the risk of falling into poverty increased by a third for families that pay for childcare.

The charities argue that delays to the introduction of universal credit mean that low-income families will not be able to access the promised support from the Government of 85 per cent of childcare costs for several years.

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