The report challenges the perception that childcare market failure in London, such as a shortage of places, prevents parents from working and children from being lifted out of poverty.
The London Development Agency commissioned the University of East London, with Laing & Buisson and Roger Tym & Partners, to investigate barriers to the availability and affordability of childcare in the capital.
Eva Lloyd, reader in Early Childhood at UEL and co-author of the report, said there was 'a mismatch' between the 60 per cent of mothers who work atypical hours - that is before 9am and after 5pm - and the availability of childcare outside these times.
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