Full-time nursery costing nearly £15k a year.

Full-time nursery costing nearly £15k a year.

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There is a crisis in the UK's childcare system. It now costs an average of £15,000 a year to keep children between 1-2 years old in nursery according to a new report by the charity Coram, a figure that will simply be unaffordable for many. The impact of childcare often has an understated on the parents as well as the child - it means parents being forced to put a pause on their career for a few years to look after their children full time. Which also means household budgets shrink, and this impacts the rest of the economy. The Chair of the Commission on Young Lives Anne Longfield joins the programme.

 

Russia launched another brutal missile attack across Ukraine in the very early hours this morning. 9 people have been killed and the attack on the Zaporizhia nuclear power cut the power to large areas of the country. The Mayor of Lviv Andriy Sadovyi and Major General Jonathan Shaw share their experiences and thoughts on the latest attack

and the reasons behind it.

 


Also on the programme: Parts of the HS2 train line has been delayed yet again and Rishi Sunak heads to France tomorrow to make a deal with President Emmanuel Macron so he can implement his plan to stop refugees crossing the English Channel.

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