👶 Joeli Brearley from @pregnantscrewed said the government needs to go further with its free childcare provisions and increase the 3-4 year old entitlement

'That's the most urgent thing that needs to happen and it needs to happen right now.”
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'Having a baby can feel like financial suicide.'

'It certainly feels like career suicide for some women'.

PregnantThenScrewed founder Joeli Brearley says parents can end up paying more on childcare than housing.

Matthew Stadlen | Albie | Dawn Neesom | #StormHuntley

👨‍👩‍👧 Could you support your family for just £172 a week?

💷 Statutory paternity pay is going up from today - but only by £12.

🤷‍♂️ New dad Sean says the changes are “pointless” as a campaign calls for more time off at better pay for ALL dads.

Full story:
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-684851…

‘The UK’s childcare system does not work for low-income families…so we think the whole system needs scrapping’ Joeli Brearley on problems and progress at the free FT Financial Literacy & Inclusion Campaign webinar on The True Cost of Childcare hosted by Claer Barrett
Catch replay at ft.com/flicevent

Join Joeli Brearley, Founder of PregnantThenScrewed; Anna Whitehouse, Founder of Anna Whitehouse; & Maike Currie, Head of Marketing Campaigns & Content at Hargreaves Lansdown as they join FT's Consumer Editor Claer Barrett for International Women's Day on 8 March! Sign up at: bit.ly/3unReUV

A great podcast by Joeli Brearley PregnantThenScrewed highlighting the issues the childcare sector is facing & sharing the true insight into childcare costings and the impact for all!!
Thank you!!

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'If we aren’t careful, becoming a parent will be a luxury item' PregnantThenScrewed's Joeli Brearley

As NEF has argued, even if the government's proposed reforms were delivered they would benefit high-income families most while locking out poorer children
independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…

Join Joeli Brearley, Founder of PregnantThenScrewed; Anna Whitehouse, Founder of Anna Whitehouse; & Maike Currie, Head of Marketing Campaigns & Content at Hargreaves Lansdown and the FT's Consumer Editor Claer Barrett for International Women's Day on 8 March!

Sign up at: everythingaboutchildcare.live.ft.com

If you haven’t listened to CHILD on BBC Sounds then what are you doing with your life? It’s utterly glorious. I loved every second

The UK spends more than anywhere else in Europe subsidising the cost of structural inequality in favour of the rich, according to an analysis of 23 OECD countries.
theguardian.com/inequality/202…

Perhaps I’m just tired/unwell, perhaps it’s just the algorithms, but it feels particularly bad and sad here. Fury, division, mistrust, refusal to countenance commonality or good faith difference; insistence on being ‘better’ or purer in an opinion. Not new but so very big now.

If the Autumn Statesman is any indicator, Jeremy Hunt still doesn’t understand the childcare crisis

My analysis for The New Statesman The New Statesman Spotlight on why his reform is set up to fail
PregnantThenScrewed Early Education and Childcare Coalition Sarah Ronan Joeli Brearley
newstatesman.com/spotlight/econ…