Who will look after the kids?

Ellen Pasternack / Why should the State prioritise getting new mothers back to work above all else?

WHEN IT COMES TO THE QUESTION of who should care for the nation’s children, the UK has made a clear policy decision: not their parents. In this country, much of the help with the increasingly unaffordable cost of raising children is effectively in the form of vouchers that can be used to buy Ofsted-certified childcare. If instead you want to look after your child yourself, you forfeit these benefits. Why do we have this system, when we could instead take the budget for childcare vouchers and give it to parents to spend as they see fit? In this setup, nothing would stop families from continuing to put their children in daycare with this allowance, if that was indeed what worked best for them; if they preferred to take an extended…

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The Critic (Digital) - 1 Issue, February 2023

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