This petition was submitted during the 2017-2019 parliament
Rejected petition Child care help for parents returning to work after maternity.
My partner has recently finished her maternity leave and gone back to work part time. Luckily she can work flexible days/hours to help with childcare, and we have help from family members that no longer work full time.
This is not the case with other families/single parents.
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If me and my partner were to be on benefits we would be entitled to childcare but surely we wouldn’t really require it because we would be home anyway!
But the working parents obviously get help from the government but for us this stretches as far as a months worth of nappies and milk and would cover no where near the cost of day care!
Why as working tax players are we suffering?
The petition I’ve created is to shed some light on the situation and hopefully get some form of help!
This petition was rejected
Why was this petition rejected?
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