All news on the topic: Childcare

Wanting to make the most of the nicer weather, and making more spontaneous plans during summer, are some of the reasons Brits find themselves short of time

Tax-free childcare is an online account which parents and guardians pay into, and then they receive a top up - for every £8 you pay in, the Government will add in £2

A resilient mum couldn't find a babysitter and didn't want to face the $1000 fine for skipping jury duty, so she packed up her four kids and took them with her to the courthouse

Keyla Remache raised her little girl in the circus and travelled around the UK every week. Despite receiving lots of hate online, the mum-of-one wouldn't change a thing

A new E.coli outbreak has killed one person and left six others hospitalised with parents warned as the infection appears to be mainly affecting children and the source is not yet known

Tax returns were described as the dullest conversation topics, according to a poll of 2,000 adults. Other subjects best avoided include clothes washing, car repairs, pensions and childcare

Joan Hobbs, 89, was on July 17 beaten 'black and blue' with a walking frame by a male resident at the IRT Thomas Holt Aged Care Centre in the southern Sydney suburb of Kirrawee

The Government pledged to deliver 30 hours a week of free childcare to kids under five by September 2025 - but MPs warned it won’t work without help for nurseries that are 'straining to survive'

'We must provide parents with access to early years settings and high quality services that can help them to overcome key challenges,' writes Matt Buttery, CEO of global parenting programme provider, Triple P UK and Ireland

A woman left people baffled after she referred to her parents as 'morally poor' for not regularly looking after her children, as she mused the rising cost of childcare

Angela McKillop and her husband Stephen grew up on council estates in Scotland but turned a successful home renovation into a business worth £5 million before it came crashing down

A reader was snubbed by her best pal just before her 40th birthday celebration dinner - she turns to Mirror agony aunt Coleen Nolan for advice

Three in ten struggle to balance childcare arrangements with their employment - and yet they still receive comments from colleagues such as “she’s only part time”

Recent research by the charity Coram Family and Childcare revealed a British family will pay on average £943 for six weeks of holiday childcare for a school-age child

A place at a holiday club now costs an average of £157 per week, which is 2.3 times higher than what parents pay for an after-school club during term time, according to a major survey by Coram

Members of the United Kingdom's armed forces are struggling to feed their families and pay the bills with the number of troops on Universal Credit shooting up by 30% in a year

Over half of parents are faced with additional childcare costs over the next six weeks - and predict these will add up to almost £200

The Shadow Chancellor said Labour's housebuilding plan would put rocket boosters under the industry as the party focuses on stabilising the economy

Kimberly Campbell-Nottage is routinely denied the opportunity to work in the childcare industry as employers refused to accommodate her needs when setting up interviews

Town halls fear a lack of early years provision will prevent them from delivering the promised entitlement to 30 hours-a-week of free childcare to working parents of kids under five

The Ethnicity Motherhood Pay Penalty Report shows Black and minoritised women do not earn as much after having children and the Fawcett Society have called for change

One mum has revealed why she never gives her kids a set bedtime as she vows to give her little ones 'autonomy' over their own sleep schedules. Her three kids will drift off anywhere between 9pm and 1am

Owner Morgan Brown opened Cozy Home Childcare & Learning Centre in Avondale, Cincinnati, US, in 2020 and it proved to be popular with families as over 50 children attended

Martin Lewis asked the minister for children, families and wellbeing Claire Coutinho why the extra childcare support for Universal Credit claimants hadn't been extended to parents claiming Tax Credits

First announced back in the Spring Statement, the maximum amount parents on Universal Credit can claim back each month for their childcare costs goes up by 47%