Baby classes have been cancelled, support has been harder to access, and parents’ jobs are at risk because they have not been able to find childcare, the report from the House of Commons Petitions Committee said.
The cross-party committee considers e-petitions submitted on Parliament’s petitions website and public (paper) petitions presented to the House of Commons.
MPs held an inquiry in response to the e-petition started by Jessie Zammit and her husband James Zammit-Garcia signed by more than 226,000 people that calls for the Government to extend maternity leave by three months with pay in light of Covid-19.
The inquiry also uncovered 'many more issues on which we hope the Government will urgently consider further action, with or without an extension to paid parental leave', the report, The impact of Covid-19 on maternity and parental leave, published today (6 July), said.
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