Autumn Budget 2021: Childcare, gender and Covid-19
A pre budget briefing from the UK Women’s Budget Group – October 2021
UK Policy Briefing
A Pre budget briefing from the UK Women’s Budget Group on 'Childcare, gender and Covid-19' - Spring 2021
The Covid pandemic, and the government’s response to it, has exacerbated the crisis in early childcare with implications for children, parents, providers and wider society:
Urgent action is required to overhaul the childcare system. This requires emergency support for providers now, moving to a supply-side funding model in the medium term, and better training for the workforce and increased support for the most disadvantaged children, who benefit the most from high-quality childcare. In the longer-term, there is a need for a universal and free system, in recognition of childcare as a public service on equal footing with school education.
[1] Ceeda (2019) Counting the cost in spring 2019 (https://bit.ly/2DD13Dz)
[2] The Sutton Trust (Apr 2020) Social mobility and Covid-19 (https://bit.ly/3jYmAGe)
[3] The Sutton Trust (Jul 2020) Covid-19 impacts: Early Years (https://bit.ly/385hm9q)
[4] Pregnant Then Screwed (2020) Covid, Childcare and Career (https://bit.ly/3jUKu5p)
[5] Savage, M. (Jan 2021) Covid stress ‘driving hundreds of childcare workers to quit profession’ (https://bit.ly/3tPiOVH)
Ceeda (2019) Counting the cost in spring 2019 (https://bit.ly/2DD13Dz)
The Sutton Trust (Apr 2020) Social mobility and Covid-19 (https://bit.ly/3jYmAGe)
The Sutton Trust (Jul 2020) Covid-19 impacts: Early Years (https://bit.ly/385hm9q)
Pregnant Then Screwed (2020) Covid, Childcare and Career (https://bit.ly/3jUKu5p)
Savage, M. (Jan 2021) Covid stress ‘driving hundreds of childcare workers to quit profession’ (https://bit.ly/3tPiOVH)
A pre budget briefing from the UK Women’s Budget Group – October 2021
WBG Initial response to the Budget March 2021.
The UK WBG has written a background briefing on the key policy issues having an impact on Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG).
The WBG urges the Prime Minister to invest in the care economy for the economic recovery of the whole country.