💬 'When your childcare bill is so high that it wipes out your entire salary, you start questioning, 'Why am I working? What is the point?'' 'I want to work... but it is so difficult when you know you are effectively going to work for no money'
Charlotte also knows the pressures nurseries are under and that they have no choice but to put the fees up because the funding from the Government just isn’t adequate. “The whole situation is outrageous and we should be able to manage on our salary, but are getting to the point where we won’t be able to soon,” she says.
. One in five parents 22 per cent) say their childcare costs are now more than half their household income. “When Piper-Rose turned one, I put her into nursery for two half-days a week, just because she was bored at home with me all day,” says Charlie-Rose. “She absolutely loved it so I thought I’d put her in for more days, but I realised I’d have to return to work to do that.”
“I was also in the situation where I was happy being in work, even though it was not the work I was doing before. So to cover Piper-Rose’s nursery costs, I immediately had to up my hours from 16 hours to 35 hours and pretty much my entire pay check covers her nursery fees and my travel to and from work.”
“After discussing it with my fiance, we decided that I wouldn’t delay my career plans for another year, so I have handed in my notice and … will be going back to university to re-train as a barrister. “It is a terrible situation and there isn’t any support out there and there is not enough understanding of the challenges women face.“There is a big push around women being able to ‘have it all’ – have a career and a baby. But the Government hasn’t actually put the support in place to allow women to do that.
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