The UK is once again in recession, and there is increasing evidence that it is women who are bearing the brunt of the Government's economic policies, with female unemployment now at its highest level for 25 years at 1.3 million.
Labour market statistics published in March showed that eight out of ten of jobs lost in the previous three months were women's. Predictions are that worse is to come for women, and their families, with knock-on effects for the childcare sector.
Anand Shukla, chief executive of Daycare Trust, says, 'The latest employment figures reinforce Daycare Trust's fear that parents, and particularly women, are being forced out of work and in to poverty.'
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