Finances | Support working parents with childcare & commuting, thinktank urges

Extra support for working parents, including aid with childcare and commuting, must be introduced if the Government is to reduce child poverty levels, a thinktank has said.

Rising parental employment over the past two decades has switched the focus of Britain’s child poverty challenge from tackling workless households to supporting working families, with many kinds of working families now facing a greater risk of poverty than at the turn of the millennium, according to research published this week by the Resolution Foundation.