Mum calls for childcare subsidies after £40k costs for three children

A call has been made for Stormont to enact a childcare strategy that subsidises costs and leads to better terms and conditions for those working in the sector, after one mum calculated her family's costs.

"It pushes people out of the work market and then they have to try and get back into a career a few years later, it has lots of ripples." "But I just think it's for all the families who maybe do find themselves struggling and someone has to give up a job to afford it, we really need to get something in place."

"They've lost people to better paid jobs, because it's hard to keep hold of people when you can't offer them better wages."Even in England, Scotland Wales, I think they get 30 free hours a week of childcare from age three."They do need to subsidise childcare for the 0-3 age in some way, it's just so expensive and there is limited provision."

Families should be supported so mother’s can actually lookafter their own children. How is this progress ?

You keep posting this story Everyone at work who has kids pays expensive childcare costs. It's not unique to this couple.

This poor woman, the person that needs to be investigated is the one that forced her to have 3 kids

Calls for subsidies yet also says she can afford to absorb cost. At the end of the day demand is pushing prices up and sadly but rightly it is the parents responsibility to ensure their children are looked after.

Does the world own them a living? NO!!!

So let me get this straight if you don’t earn enough money working to pay for someone else to look after your children while you work you want me to pay someone else to look after your children while you work. No. You want kids, you sort it out.

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