The lack of affordable childcare available in the UK has long been a subject of campaigns, with the average cost of sending a child under the age of two to nursery reaching over £263.81 a week full-time.
and civil partners, first promised by former prime minister David Cameron in 2005.
Currently, one member of a married couple who earns under the £12,570 income tax threshold can transfer £1,270 of their allowance to their spouse, reducing their tax bill by up to £252 a year. The eligibility could be extended to all cohabiting couples, and the size of the tax break dramatically increased under the new proposal.
“Families across this country are crying out for affordable childcare so that they don’t have to choose between their career and their kids”While Truss’s campaign yesterday said there is £1 trillion worth of “behind the scenes caring contributions, which lessen the burden on the public purse” and that it is “only right to support these individuals”, critics say it will do little to solve the problem; instead, it forces parents to make difficult decisions between...
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