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The costs of childcare after housing costs
Date: 24 December 2012
Author: Vidhya Alakeson and Alex Hurrell
It is well known that the UK has some of the most expensive childcare in the OECD, accounting for a third of household income in some cases. New analysis published by the Resolution Foundation shows that the picture is even bleaker for families than we generally assume. The analysis looks at the costs of childcare after families have paid for housing which is a more accurate reflection of the disposable income they have to meet other costs of living, including childcare.
Counting the Costs of Childcare
Date: 28 October 2012
Author: Vidhya Alakeson and Alex Hurrell
Counting the Costs of Childcare finds that high childcare costs mean that a woman working full-time could bring home as little as £4 a week in extra pay. In the most extreme case, a second earner working full-time at the minimum wage in a family where her partner is already working full-time at the same wage, would be left with just £211 (£4 a week) from her annual wage of £11,900 after the costs of caring for two children and the loss of tax credits which would be gradually withdrawn as the family’s income rose.
Who Gains from Growth? Living Standards to 2020
Date: 23 September 2012
Author: Institute for Employment Research and Institute for Fiscal Studies
Living standards for Britain’s low and middle income households will be lower in 2020 than they were a decade earlier even if growth returns. Households in this group are set for income falls of between 3 and 15 percent from 2008 to 2020. Who Gains from Growth? examines the changing structure of the UK jobs market in tandem with the effects of the tax and benefit system. It produces the most sophisticated modelling yet of the prospects for low to middle income households in the recovery.
Life on a low income
Date: 5 April 2012
Author: Katherine Green
In April 2011 Resolution Foundation started following 7 low to middle income families across England to track their financial and economic position and how their lives changed over the course of 12 months.
The price of motherhood: women and part-time work
Date: 9 February 2012
Author: Vidhya Alakeson
British women are paying a shockingly high price for motherhood as they are forced into lower-skilled, part-time work after having children, according to the findings of our new survey with Netmums.
Childcare support and the hours trap: the universal credit
14 November 2011
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Childcare support and the hours trap: the Universal Credit
Date: 14 November 2011
Author: Donald Hirsch
The Government has made an extra £300m available for childcare support under Universal Credit, compared to present spending levels. This briefing shows the impact of the government’s final proposal for childcare support on work incentives for single parents and second earners.
Childcare: failing to meet the needs of working parents
Date: 17 June 2011
Author: Vidhya Alakeson
The Resolution Foundation has launched an investigation into how to create a childcare market that meets the needs of working families.
This initial report looks at how the current market is failing parents who work outside of typical hours (8am-6pm). With nearly 70% of all parents now working atypical hours a flexible, affordable chidlcare market is critical to maintaining the living standards of families on low-to-middle incomes.
Childcare Tax Credit Survey
Date: 15 March 2011
A new survey of over 2,000 working mothers has revealed that over half will be forced to stop work or significantly reduce their working hours, as a result of cuts in the level of support for childcare costs, due to start this April.
The changes relate to the childcare element of the Working Tax Credit, which is claimed by around 450,000 working households across the UK, mostly on household incomes below £30,000. Under the current system, working parents can claim support for up to 80% of the costs of childcare, but from April that figure will fall to 70%.
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